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Finland Finds Anchor Drag Marks Left By Tanker That Broke Cables

By Kati Pohjanpalo Dec 29, 2024(Bloomberg) –Finnish authorities investigating damage to subsea power and data cables found drag marks on the seabed likely left by the anchor of seized tanker Eagle...

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"Dark Fleet" Tanker Faces Civil and Criminal Cases in Finland

Finnish investigators now have two more possible ways to detain the tanker Eagle S, which is suspected of severing multiple subsea cables in the Gulf...

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Chinese Freighter Suspected of Severing Telecom Cable off Taiwan

Taiwan's coast guard believes that a Chinese freighter severed a telecom cable off the island's northern coastline last week, and analysts ha...

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Vanuatu Illustrates Risks of Thin Subsea Cable Infrastructure

[By Cynthia Mehboob]Last month’s magnitude 7.3 earthquake near Vanuatu caused widespread devastation and left at least a dozen people dead. The disa...

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Anchor Suspected of Causing Estlink2 Cable Damage Recovered from Baltic Sea

Finnish authorities have recovered an anchor from the Gulf of Finland that they suspect belongs to the Russian tanker Eagle S, which is suspected of damaging the Estlink2 undersea cable...

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Undersea Cable War: Expert interview with former CIA Paramilitary Officer.​

Jan 8, 2025 #usnews #worldnews #nationalsecurity

Did China cut undersea cables near Taiwan? Former CIA Paramilitary Officer Nick Thompson tells The Cipher Brief the other explanations don't add up. “If I’m on a 20-foot sailboat by myself, setting the anchor is a little bit of an art. So when you’re talking about vessels that are 700 feet long, 100 feet wide, that is a big piece of machinery going to the sea floor. The whole anchor theory of, 'We accidentally did this,' is frankly just absolutely ridiculous."


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Chinese anchor-like device to cut cables makes headlines - Splash247

China has been pushed even more into the centre of cable-cutting incidents around the world after it emerged that a team of engineers at Lishui University developed a “dragging type submarine cable-cutting device” back in 2020. According to Newsweek’s review of Chinese-language patent...

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Report: U.S. is Convinced That Eagle S Cable Incident Was Accidental

Since late December, the Russia-linked tanker Eagle S has been under arrest in Finland on suspicion of rupturing five subsea cables by dragging her a...

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Baltic Undersea Cable Between Latvia And Sweden Damaged By External Force

By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS, Jan 26 (Reuters) – An undersea fiber optic cable between Latvia and Sweden was damaged on Sunday, likely as a result of external influence, Latvia said, adding its navy had...

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