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On 17–18 November 2024, [1] two submarine telecommunication cables, the BCS East-West Interlink and C-Lion1 fibre-optic cables were disrupted in the Baltic Sea.The incidents involving both cables occurred in close proximity of each other and near-simultaneously which prompted accusations from European government officials and NATO member states of hybrid warfare and sabotage as the cause of ...
2024 Estlink 2 incident Eagle S slowed significantly while passing Estlink 2. Eagle S Patrol vessel Turva Date 25 December 2024 Time 12.26 (Eastern European Time) Location Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea Type maritime incident Cause Under investigation; suspected sabotage Suspects 8 crew members placed on travel bans On 25 December 2024 at 12:26 EET, the Estlink 2 submarine power cable had an ...
The 2008 submarine cable disruption refers to three separate incidents of major damage to submarine optical communication cables around the world. The first incident caused damage involving up to five high-speed Internet submarine communications cables in the Mediterranean Sea and Middle East from January 23 to February 4, 2008, causing ...
The first cable — a 135-mile internet link between Lithuania and Sweden's Gotland Island — stopped working on Sunday. Later on Monday, a 730-mile cable carrying data between Germany and ...
Russia's threat to the subsea cables the West relies on for the internet is growing more acute amid surveillance from a specialist undersea sabotage unit, a NATO official said.
The SPIN personnel went on to develop the Hawaiki Cable [13] [14] (see List of international submarine communications cables), which started commercial operation in 2018. [15] Cable landing points were proposed for Auckland, Norfolk Island, Noumea, Suva, Wallis, Apia, Pago Pago and Papeete, with a branching unit for Vanuatu.
A review of the ship's log indicated it had been in the region of each of the cables when they broke. Broken sections of cable were also found on the deck of the Novorosiysk. It appeared that the cables had been dragged along by the ship's nets, and then cut once they were pulled up onto the deck to release the nets.
Australia's Indian Ocean territory of Christmas Island will be connected by subsea cable to the northern garrison city of Darwin, a project backed by Alphabet's Google that Australia says will ...