Zeroing in on the Pipelines
How the Nord Stream saboteurs may have proceeded
The perpetrators use sonar to locate the pipelines
Concrete
Divers with explosives descend along a rope
Explosives are placed
on segments of the pipeline
Steel pipe
Divers ascend again (a time-
consuming process due
to decompression stops)
Approx.
1.4-meter
diameter from
outer shell
Inner coating
The segments were
welded at the seams
SGraphics
Zeroing in on the Pipelines
How the Nord Stream saboteurs may have proceeded
The perpetrators use sonar to locate the pipelines
Divers with explosives descend along a rope
Explosives are placed
on segments of the pipeline
Concrete
Divers ascend again (a time-
consuming process due
to decompression stops)
Steel
pipe
Inner
coating
Approx.
1.4-meter
diameter from
outer shell
The segments
were welded
at the seams
SGraphics
Zeroing in on the Pipelines
How the Nord Stream saboteurs
may have proceeded
The perpetrators use sonar
to locate the pipelines
Divers with explosives
descend along a rope
Explosives are placed
on segments of the pipeline
Divers ascend again (a time-
consuming process due
to decompression stops)
Concrete
Steel pipe
Inner
coating
Approx.
1.4-meter
diameter
from
outer shell
The segments
were welded
at the seams
SGraphics
Zeroing in on the Pipelines
How the Nord Stream saboteurs may have proceeded
The perpetrators use sonar to locate the pipelines
Concrete
Divers with explosives descend along a rope
Explosives are placed
on segments of the pipeline
Steel pipe
Divers ascend again (a time-
consuming process due
to decompression stops)
Approx.
1.4-meter
diameter from
outer shell
Inner coating
The segments were
welded at the seams
SGraphics
Zeroing in on the Pipelines
How the Nord Stream saboteurs may have proceeded
The perpetrators use sonar to locate the pipelines
Divers with explosives descend along a rope
Explosives are placed
on segments of the pipeline
Concrete
Divers ascend again (a time-
consuming process due
to decompression stops)
Steel
pipe
Inner
coating
Approx.
1.4-meter
diameter from
outer shell
The segments
were welded
at the seams
SGraphics
Zeroing in on the Pipelines
How the Nord Stream saboteurs
may have proceeded
The perpetrators use sonar
to locate the pipelines
Divers with explosives
descend along a rope
Explosives are placed
on segments of the pipeline
Divers ascend again (a time-
consuming process due
to decompression stops)
Concrete
Steel pipe
Inner
coating
Approx.
1.4-meter
diameter
from
outer shell
The segments
were welded
at the seams
SGraphics