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Were they cut on purpose or accident?
by typpilol 1y ago
Were they cut on purpose or accident?
- viraptor 1y agoIt's only been a few hours. I doubt anyone knows.
- betaby 1y agoCables in Red Sea got cut frequently. All the time it's the same story - anchor dropped where it should not. Similar stories happen near Singapore.
- mandeepj 1y ago> Cables in Red Sea got cut frequently On land, we’ve call before you dig. I wish they could do something like call before you drop (anchor) training or just get the word out.
- jvilalta 1y agoThey are usually marked on nautical charts.
- simplesimon890 1y agoSome fishermen won't care as there are less ships where the cables are, they'll fish there. There are a lot of cables and fishing vessels in the Irish Sea.
- jmkni 1y agoCouldn't that be a security concern?
- nashashmi 1y agoSecurity concern is the more unlikely scenario of accidental cutting. There is enough redundancy that it is very difficult to cut them all for a single ship and if there are hypothetically multiple ships all cutting at the same time, then it is likely to be traceable. The cost of cutting these cables by sending someone out there is significant enough in addition to how unlikely they are to succeed.
- anikom15 1y ago(It’s not actually anchors.)
- gpm 1y agoWhy do you say that? I can't say I'm an expert on the matter, but my understanding from industry reporting on some likely intentional ones in the Baltic where that they were still unambiguously done with anchors. Just by someone intentionally causing the anchor to drop and drag along.
- matt-p 1y agoIt's by far the most common.. but.. Multiple cables in this manner is IME /less/ likely to be an anchor, although it has happened.
- indigodiddy 1y ago[flagged]
- simplesimon890 1y agoCable cuts are very common worldwide and are very rarely reported widely in the media ( that I've seen ) unless there's an opportunity to tie it to Russia. Then it's reported as suspicious or there's a paragraph in the article speculating about the security implications of purposeful attacks on communications infrastructure. IMO it's a ploy to generate anxiety about how much money is being spent on "security" i.e. the military, and how we ( Europe ) need to increase it.
- whatevaa 1y agoFound the propagandist.
- anikom15 1y agoI meant they are intentional, as opposed to being a side-effect of ‘anchoring’ the boat to keep it from moving.
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- hulitu 1y agoYou mean no Russian or Chinese ships deliberating cutting cables on land like in EU ? That can't be /s
- saddat 1y agoA captain told me once that it is silly to assume a big ship dropps it’s anchor accidentally unnoted
- mmis1000 1y agoYou need to run a whole procedure to get the anchor dropped. It can't be an "accident" in any means. And red sea is quite sunny currently (i just checked windy.com now) . There is absolutely no reason that they need to drop it out of nowhere.
- cluckindan 1y agoBut it’s a somewhat believable cover story when you’re running military sabotage ops from a civilian vessel