Al-Qaida Scuba Attack Force?

[H2Andy]

well, without knowing how much explosive tonnage you need and how much
a diver can carry, we just don't know how many divers it would take, but
probably more than a dozen

now you're complicating getting all those divers into the water undected,
getting them all to show up on target, and blowing up all the charges
more or less at the same time to create a powerful explosion...

they say "keep it simple" because simple works

 

[molksmith]

I don't want sound too much like a conspiracy guy. Because I am more the take it seriously but live your life kinda guy.

Who would have thought a plane could bring down a building?

One Dirty Bomb or small Nucleur device on the tressels of a bridge would cause some damage. And having lived in NYC until recently I am telling you there is nobody guarding bridges. Proper Demolition takes into account the structural weaknesses of substances.

But this is too morbid a topic for a place as lovely as the Scuba Board....

 

[H2Andy]

well... what i was discussing is the feasability of having scuba-borne explosives
delivered efficiently. you brought up the Cole, so i addressed that.

an attack against a harbor facility using scuba to blow up ships is just not that
easy to carry out because of the logistics employed.

by the way, flying a plane into a builiding is not a new idea. the Japanese flew
kamikaze missions into ships, and there were plans to start flying kamikaze
flights to Okinawa once the Americans took the island. they were never carried
out, as best as i know.

as for a dirty bomb or nuclear device, if the terrorists had such a device, there
are far better ways to deliver it than by scuba diver. park it in a car downtown
LA and you have a hundred times the bang for your buck.

 

[Orlando Eric]

Well.. as a matter of fact. We have a local Nuke plant right here and there is a plan against this sort of attack that I will not discuss here.

There are explosives out there that do a nasty job in a medium sized package.

However if someone had just learned to dive last week and was screwing around the intakes at a plant it would for sure be a one way ride for them.

I am not privy to the whole plan but if you where trailing bubbles around one of these you are gonna start to feel like a Missippi catfish at the hieght of redneck fishing season.

 

[molksmith]

I am glad you guys are on the right side.
Because you're Smart!!!

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

awww man...

I had a couple of suspicious looking characters this morning for a course.. One had a mustache, and the other blinked a lot....

maybe I should be more careful who I let into my PADI underwater explosives and demolition course in future..

.

Speaking of which ... there's a member of this board who uses a camel as his avatar ... and well, we ALL know where camels come from. Highly suspicious, if you ask me ...

On a semi-serious note ... the first thing I have to ask myself when a "story" like this one surfaces is what else is going on at the moment that our gubmit doesn't want us to be looking at ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[H2Andy]

molksmith, i know of at least one easy attack that would cripple the United States.

it would take less training and less people that were used in 9-11

trust me... any damage these scuba diving terrorist do (unless they get their
hands on a nuclear or dirty bomb) is miniscule. it'll be a pinprick.

 

[Blitz]

It doesn't take as much explosives as you may think to sink a large ship. If the doer knows the construction of the boat and a little bit of math it could be done by one person carrying enough bang. Whether it is some form of RDX, limpet or semtex it could be done by one-but more likely 3-6- persons.

 

[idratherbediving]

it doesnt take a large scale attack to cause the media to blow it out of proportion. even a small attack, in the right place, can cause a very big panic.

 

[Notso_Ken]

Who would have thought a plane could bring down a building?

Personally, I was amazed it took as long as it did for a 767 to bring down a building. The kinetic energy in a 300,000 pound airplane traveling at 300-400 mph is quite high. When I saw it on TV, I was amazed the buildings had not collapsed right away.

Ken