Thread by @Erkperk

Listen to this man:

"For the first few days, the harbor master said he was “not allowed to say a thing”. But today, John Anker Nielsen can reveal that four or five days before the Nord Stream blasts, he was out with the rescue service on Christiansø because there were some ships with switched-off radios. They turned out to be American naval vessels, and when the rescue service approached, they were told by Naval Command to turn back.

Therefore, the harbor master has some faith in the theory that American star journalist Seymour Hersh, among others, has put forward without any documentation: that the US was behind the sabotage. The Americans have these small unmanned submarines that can solve any task, John Anker Nielsen has been told"

Full paywalled article here. The harbor master isn't making this up. He wasn't alone on the rescue vessel ordered to stay clear of the American warships.

politiken.dk/danmark/art100…

The little rescue boat at Christiansö was just checking up on some ships because thy didn't respond on radio. It was around the same time that the US Navy convoy led by USS Kearsage passed, but they moved at high speed and had AIS on.

I found a rescue vessel which left Christiansö late afternoon on the 21:st of Sept 2022, and headed in the direction of the northern explosions sites. It stopped half way for about 10 minutes (yellow pin) , 730PM before turning back.

Actually, the rescue trip of John Anker Nielsen came close to the USS Kearsarge convoy, and the US navy ships turned on their AIS about 15 minutes after the encounter.

John Anker started his trip towards the American war ships at 6:43PM on September 21, 2022. USS Kearsarge was "dark" at the time, and about 40 km away IF it held the same course and speed as it did after turning on AIS at 7:13PM. Where was Kearsarge when dark? John must have seen it on radar, or heard about it some other way before setting out. I will ask of course.

Here's a film dated Sept 19 2022 of Kearsarge leaving Gdansk. The trip to the site where she turned on AIS is about 12 hours at normal cruise speed, but she spent about 60 hours to get there, so there was time for other activities.

Seems like Arlington came from the North, having visited Visby the day before (September 20, 2022).

https://x.com/SCAN_Monitor/status/1571677799433256960

If Kearsarge just wanted to go home from Gdansk, it would have been closer to go south of Bornholm like the US military tanker McKinney did around the same time.

John Anker Nielsen responded to me by email, saying he "has nothing to add beyond what he said to Politikken"
Bummer.

for completeness. US destroyer USS Paul Ignatius was in Gdynia (right next to Gdansk in Poland) on the day of the explosions (September 26). Then it went out to the crime scene, masquerading in AIS messages as a greek container vessel. See red dots in graph below

defence24.pl/sily-zbrojne/u…

We know that it was Paul Ignatius "guarding the crime scene" because a reporter on board the danish investigator dive boat wrote "they could hear the radar cranking on Paul Ignatius"

https://x.com/MadsKorsager/status/1579764807770968064

Paul Ignatius finally left the Baltics on October 18. All of the ship movements documented in this thread were known and reported on Twitter soon after the explosions. The only "news" is that US Navy behaved strange near one of the the explosion sites on September 21, causing the rescue service at Christiansö to check up on them.

x.com/WarshipCam/sta…

The big American warships leaving the explosion area on the evening Sept 21 were replaced by Danish and Swedish warships allegedly chasing Russian ships. Did they know about the bombs?

https://x.com/Erkperk/status/1842161838361915440

In December 2022, it was reported that a satellite company had found some "dark ships" in the Nord Stream rupture area a few days before the explosions. The reporting insinuated they were Russians, but considering that they found no other dark ships in the satellite SAR images, what they saw were likely the Americans.

wired.com/story/nord-str…