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How a former erotic model blew up Russia’s Nord Stream pipeline
(www.thetimes.com)
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Why does this read like an AI generated adventure story?
This is just embarrassingly bad:
It's like they told the AI to right YA adventure narrative with only a few specific details to fit the cover story.
Diving-themed pornographic movie that requires ~500kg of plastic explosives stuffed in the car boot
I don't know if this is ai but the article is definitely goofy as hell in the story it proposes. It's written like it's moonligting as a movie script
Yeah I don't buy that. The us military wouldn't dive to the bottom of the North Sea? Wtf is this article talking about. A sexy femme fatale and her ragtag group of dashingly codenamed conspirators sailed a yacht and did some amateur industrial sabotage? No mention of Seymour Hersh's story? This doesn't pass smell test for me.
I guess at least it's not blaming Russia for the attack lol.
Are navy seals like deep deep water divers, though? I thought they were just marines who get wet
Navy SEALs were created in 1942 as literally "Underwater Demolition Team"
Yes, absolutely. Extreme depth training and closed circuit rebreather use are part of SEAL training.
To be honest, other than the use of explosives there's nothing about this particular dive that someone with an Advanced Open Water Diver certification and a couple of specialty courses under their belt wouldn't be able to do.
My dad was a naval doctor and the diving training he received while studying hyperbaric medicine was enough to easily translate to a Master Scuba Diver rating for recreational diving. SEALs get significantly more training than that.
they're marines who take off their floaties in the pool