After examining images of the damage published by the Swedish newspaper Expressen, the expert assumed that the pipe would not rust because water at a depth of 80 meters does not contain much oxygen.

According to him, the corrosion inside the pipe is also limited, and he suggested that the explosion caused a pressure surge, which could have caused damage to sections of the Nord Stream located some distance from the scene.

However, in his opinion, they can be eliminated by slightly raising the pipe above the seabed, after which welders-divers will come into play, joining a new piece of pipe.

Finally, the pipe is emptied, the curves are cleaned of dirt and soot, blown and dried, and the gas supply can be resumed again, the Danish specialist considered, assuring that the work would only take several months.

On September 26th, the Nord Stream 2 AG company, operator of the homonymous Russian gas pipeline, announced a fuel leak caused by unknown causes in one of the two pipelines of the infrastructure near the Danish island of Bornholm.

It later became known that the two lines of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline had also been damaged.

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service cataloged the blasts as terrorist attacks, revealing on September 30th that it had evidence pointing to the involvement of certain Western countries.

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