Swedish public service news interviewed a few experts on the feasibility of the Baltic Sea sabotage's being accidents, as WaPo claims some intel person concludes.
Shocker! They find the 'accident'-explanation laughable.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/experter-sagar-forklaringen-efter-misstankt-kabelsabotage
Shocker! They find the 'accident'-explanation laughable.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/experter-sagar-forklaringen-efter-misstankt-kabelsabotage
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https://youtu.be/0WOWpMAQAGs?si=Jy2UW4XGovOk3pF8
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Novakov
Although strictly speaking no one even talks about the owner, and the involved countries hardly even mention Bulgaria.
Another vessel of the same owner: https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/bulgarian-man-admits-role-in-smuggling-e21-6m-of-cocaine-to-ireland-from-brazil-1724884.html
- It is completely implausible for this to be an accident. Beyond belief that no one would notice.
- Unreasonable to not notice. There is a great braking and turning power from it, he says.
- They are either real poor sailors or saboteurs, I cant judge which from my position.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iszDhkihjQ
At the end of that process (in the phantasy of WaPo and the Russian agents) is a strong point that can handle those forces, even though such a strong point fills no function
Yup, sure bro.
https://bsky.app/profile/martindahlstrom.bsky.social/post/3lgzibxnp6s2y
https://fakti.bg/en/bulgaria/945378-captain-donyo-dachev-the-ship-vezhen-is-not-at-fault-it-was-sabotaged-by-the-russians
I personally don't trust this for a one second.
He's a 78-year old retired captain, who last sailed in 2012.
He's just speculating, not providing any facts.
He has worked for Navibulgar in the past, but a long time ago - when it was still called BMF / БМФ
1. Damaged chain stopper
2. Deformed locking mechanism (they claim from the waves)
3. Didn't get the name, but a part they say got worn out
They claim the chain dropped slowly, link by link.
https://bnr.bg/files/uploads/vezhen.pdf
I can screenshot the slides for you if you're afraid to open it.
It seems to be missing the comments below the slides, which I can see in the video, but the title page and some images are the same.
Title: Preliminary analysis in relation to the "leaked" anchor of Vezhen
Overall their claim is that the locking mechanism got damaged and strained by big waves, which caused the anchor to be dropped very SLOWLY, and that's why the crew did not notice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7gSRG5A8HY
Waves maxed out at 2.6 meter that night.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/kallor-kabelbrott-i-ostersjon-inte-sabotage
This is an example of the results. It is real easy to spread BS if you manage to plant it in one established source.
Ie, production > quality. Like everywhere, offentlig sektor included.
And I believe old-media (erroneously) regard anything WaPo as legit.