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All it takes is a ship "forgetting" to raise the anchor and running it over the cable, snapping it. Might have happened outside Finland last year [1]. [1] htt
by Moru 3y ago
All it takes is a ship "forgetting" to raise the anchor and running it over the cable, snapping it.
Might have happened outside Finland last year [1].
[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/estonia-says-chinese-ship-is-main-focus-probe-into-cables-damage-2023-11-10/ https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/estonia-says-chinese-sh...
- perihelions 3y agoAlso happened in Anguilla (Caribbean Sea) last year—some rich person's yacht ran over the ECFS cable [0]. Google went in afterwards and tested one of their moonshot projects—free-space laser communications [1]—as a temporary backhaul. [0] https://theanguillian.com/2023/02/rapid-response-from-flow-restores-major-outage-caused-by-sub-sea-fiber-break/ https://theanguillian.com/2023/02/rapid-response-from-flow-r... [1] https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231101666271/en/Liberty-Networks-Deploys-Taara%E2%80%99s-Wireless-Optical-Communication-Technology-To-Increase-High-Capacity-Connectivity-In-The-Eastern-Caribbean-Region https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231101666271/en/Lib...