The only problem is that the Russian Navy is actually directly posted in that area.
Next up the United States Navy divers would never be allowed to be a part of this and the Navy seals can't even be allowed to do an operation like this because using seals of course requires very special Congressional approval. And of course you'd have the massive mountains with paperwork.
In fact United States Navy seals have come out saying they didn't do it and neither did their guys. That's where this dubious claim of Navy divers which is a direct euphemism for the Navy seals. Because the United States Navy seals do underwater basic demolition training or BUD/S. And in fact there is no salvage diver that is going to play with explosives because they're not rated as an explosive ordinance disposal technician AKA the technical term to be able to blow stuff up.
And Navy seals will be the first to tell you that you only need a couple of ounces worth of explosive. As the sympathetic detonation will cause a massive rupture.. on top of that then it is a complete and total accident with no evidence remaining for anyone to say anything more than this was just an accident and a failure by the pipeline itself. You don't need tons of explosives enough to register on the earthquake seismic measuring devices.
Next up United States Navy divers have enough technology actually to swim right up to the pipelines and didn't have any guesswork if they did this which would have meant that they would have had 100% success ratio.
Unfortunately it is still my guess that Russian dive teams were the ones that did this especially since the fact that the entire gas pipeline was owned by Germany controlled by Germany and was an excellent way to demonstrate the power of the Red army.
Next up I totally want to see the acoustic recording equipment that this idiotic author is saying detonated this explosion.
Yep that's right because if this would have been how he said we would have had a lot more news come out. The fact that most likely we are seeing Russia having done this makes it an act of war which unfortunately there's no accusations being thrown around because that would force NATO into full scale war with Russian forces.
So yeah until this report is confirmed is complete fiction. Shrug. However I think this author needed something to remain relevant.
RE: Explosive Story from Seymour Hersh