It honestly starts to sound like they just botched the design and placement of these cables - placing them in shallow and exposed passages, with no proper defense against dragged anchors.

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r2_pilot 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Real shades of "that cable shouldn't have been dressed like that, in a dark and narrow channel, clearly marked on navigation charts(to mitigate exactly this scenario, from good captains at least)" energy.

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helsinkiandrew 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Unfortunately the Baltic is pretty shallow and fairly featureless - the gulf of Finland - between Finland, Estonia, and Russia averages 38 metres deep

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karmakurtisaani 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If only they had had you in the design team back then when the cables were put in place.

I'm sorry I have no snark-free way to respond to this.

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TulliusCicero 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah, why don't they lower the floor of the entire Baltic Sea??

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mmh0000 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Obviously, you're joking.

But how hard could it be to get a Cat 395 excavator in there? Dig a little trench and bury it.

Sounds like a weekend project to me. Has someone told the telecoms this?

	▲	karmakurtisaani 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think they could just drag a suitable hook behind a ship to carve out decent trench. Geez, how are we so much better at this than the actual engineers? Edit: to parent comment, I think people missed your joke.

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