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Someone dragged an anchor or a trawl net over it and isn't about to admit to it, especially once they realize they were in a prohibited zone. Having occasional
by mannykannot 7y ago
Someone dragged an anchor or a trawl net over it and isn't about to admit to it, especially once they realize they were in a prohibited zone.
Having occasionally followed rocket launches from Wallops Island, I think I have a small sense of how often keep-out rules are violated. Unless this area had 24/7 radar monitoring, I think this is the most likely explanation.
- mr_overalls 7y ago"No boats - not even local fishing boats - are allowed into the area, called Eckernförde Bay, about 70km (44 miles) south of the Danish border." Seems like a risky place to go trawling.
- giarc 7y agoA comment in this thread shows the area. It's pretty small and would be very easy for someone to drive through without realizing it.
- tokai 7y agoI grew up on an island in the Baltic. Cable lines to main land snapped by anchor dragging was a surprisingly common occurrence. Other marine shenanigans included drunken sailors beaching their ships because they forgot to turn around the island. And ofcause a ton of illegal fishing. Your conclusion seems most likely in my book.
- Accujack 7y agoAgreed. Bottom trawling was the first thing I thought of. The machinery is probably relatively nearby, possibly with shreds of net caught in it, sitting on the bottom.
- samstave 7y agoHow big are these sensor objects? How do they communicate what datat they collect?
- SiempreViernes 7y agoPresumably by the cable that was torn off.
- markbnj 7y agoThis is my bet as well.
- andrewflnr 7y agoTwo units connected by a cable, weighing a combined 1700 pounds, both dragged away by accident? I have a hard time imagining that. In an accident where something on the surface snags it, I can see one of the units getting pulled away and the cable snapping, but both seems unlikely, at least for an anchor. Granted, I don't know much about what a trawl net looks like in the water or how much weight it can hold.
- DoctorOetker 7y agowhy don't they put accoustic retroreflectors (perhaps with a tailored high q resonant frequency response on it) on the thing? then its just a question of raising the signal from the noise floor at different locations to locate it...