| ▲ | gnabgib 18 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Related Sweden seeks clarity from China about suspected sabotage of undersea cables (3 points, 55 minutes ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42268586 E.U. Vessels Surround Anchored Chinese Ship After Baltic Sea Cables Are Severed (5 points, 16 hours ago, 2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42262913 This story previously with limited discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42256553 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42263100 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | perihelions 18 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Also, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42191394 ("Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke (bsky.app)", 756 comments) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | EA-3167 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I'll add, Dr. Sal Mercagliano has an excellent YouTube channel that covers shipping (a topic he's a qualified expert in) and he has a video discussing this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJmqCKtJnxM The bottom line is that the alleged incident occurred in deep water, making an accidental, unnoticed anchor runnout *very* unlikely. He describes it as "A coincidence, and a very strange one," that this one vessel was seemingly over both cables just at the time they were severed, and gives a visual of maritime tracking to illustrate this. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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