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One ship with an anchor on the bottom can destroy 100 cables just as well as one.
by fpoling 2y ago
One ship with an anchor on the bottom can destroy 100 cables just as well as one.
- ViewTrick1002 2y agoYou can also do the extra work to bury the cable.
- lostmsu 2y agoProbably impractical. Digging underwater is much harder than carefully lowering something on the floor.
- raelming 2y agoThere's already underwater powered trenching/laying equipment they use to bury the cables within X miles from the shore. The Baltic Sea is probably shallow enough to bury it all the way across at a higher cost per mile of course.
- ceejayoz 2y agoThey have a handy tool for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe-and-cable-laying_plough https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe-and-cable-laying_plough
- guidedlight 2y agoPlus it could cause damage to environmental ecosystems.
- Aloisius 2y agoThe C-Lion1 cable that was cut was reported buried 1 meter below the seabed. Unfortunately, that wasn't deep enough since heavy ship anchors which can dig in deeper than that.