Subsea Warfare Need Not Involve Target Destruction
;s defense ministry aimed at boosting the nation’s maritime surveillance capabilities.Countries bordering the Baltic Sea are on high alert after a number of outages of power cables, telecom links and gas pipelines since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, including sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines.As defense analyst David R. Strachan points out in the May/June issue of Marine Technology Reporter: “Seabed warfare will increasingly be defined by the need to contest a dense battlespace teeming with sensor networks, communications nodes, autonomous vehicle hubs and energy
Denmark Launches Sea Drones to Enhance Maritime Surveillance
26 navy vessels for patrolling, oil spill response and surveillance of undersea cables.Countries bordering the Baltic Sea are on high alert after a number of outages of power cables, telecom links and gas pipelines since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, including sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines. Russia has denied it was behind the outages.(Reuters
Blueye Robotics Celebrates 10 Years
;the Blueye Pioneer.In 2018, the Blueye ROV explored the KNM Helge Ingstad frigate after the incident.In 2020, they introduced a new ROV—the Blueye Pro.In 2021, they launched the Blueye X3 with guest ports and possibilities for integrating peripherals.In 2022, Blueye documented the damage to the Nord Stream 1, where the first official pictures of the damage were taken.In 2023, the Norwegian Coast Guard equipped their entire fleet with the Blueye X3 ROV.In 2024, Blueye visited Jakarta to provide training for the Indonesian Navy.Blueye Robotics wants to thank they partners, customers, and everyone
Underwater Sabotage: A Baltic Sea Timeline
Estonia to Finland and Sweden on October 7-8, before hitting the gas pipeline on its way to a port near St Petersburg in Russia.China promised Finland and Estonia assistance with the investigations but Estonian authorities have said the Chinese did little to fulfil its promises.SEPTEMBER 2022: NORD STREAM BLASTSNord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2, built across the Baltic Sea by Russia's state-controlled Gazprom to pump natural gas to Germany, were damaged in explosions on September 26, 2022.In the investigations, Sweden found traces of explosives on several objects recovered from the site, confirming
Nord Stream Methane Spread Below Surface for Several Months
Methane from the Nord Stream pipelines destroyed in September 2022 spread over a large part of the southern Baltic Sea and remained for several months, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Gothenburg and the Voice of the Ocean research foundation.Much of the methane gas from the Nord Stream leak rose directly to the sea surface and into the atmosphere. But some methane remained below the surface and was dispersed by ocean currents.“The results of our measurements show that methane spread to large parts of the southern Baltic Sea, from the coast of Danish Zealand in the
Subsea Sabotage in the Baltic Sea - a Timeline for Perspective
infrastructure in the Baltic Sea has suffered suspicious damage. Baltic Sea nations are on high alert and NATO has said it will boost its presence in the Baltic Sea.The following is a timeline of major 'incidents' since September 2022 following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.SEPT 2022: NORD STREAM BLASTSNord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2, built across the Baltic Sea by Russia's state-controlled Gazprom to pump natural gas to Germany, were damaged on Sept. 26, 2022. Swedish seismologists registered several subsea blasts, some 17 hours apart, off the Danish island of Bornholm, that
Police Looks Into Foreign Ship’s Role in Estonia-Finland Interconnector Outage
was caused by sabotage.Separately, Finnish police continue to investigate damage caused last year to the Balticconnector gas pipeline linking Finland and Estonia, as well as several telecoms cables, and have said this was likely caused by a ship dragging its anchor.In 2022 the Russia-to-Germany Nord Stream gas pipelines running along the seabed in the same waters were blown up, in a case still under investigation by Germany.(Reuters - Reporting by Terje Solsvik; Editing by Chris Reese
Russia Eyed for Subsea Cable Cuts
of Critical Undersea Infrastructure was working closely with allies to help establish the facts.Finland's National Bureau of Investigation said it had also launched a probe into the broken subsea cable but Sweden would be leading the investigations.In the most prominent Baltic sabotage case, Nord Stream gas pipelines were destroyed in September 2022, seven months after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, hastening Europe's switch to other energy suppliers.No one has taken responsibility for those blasts. While some Western officials initially blamed Moscow - an interpretation
Germany Reaffirms Suspicions of Baltic Subsea Cable Damage Being Sabotage
Minister Ruben Brekelmans made clear he had no specific information about who was to blame, but said: "We see increasing activity of especially Russia on our seas, aimed at espionage and possibly even sabotage of our vital infrastructure."In the most prominent Baltic sabotage case, the Nord Stream gas pipeline was destroyed in 2022, hastening Europe's switch to other energy suppliers following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.No one has taken responsibility for those blasts. While some Western officials initially blamed Moscow - an interpretation dismissed as "idiotic" by
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