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Post by Mellow Yellow on Feb 3, 2008 16:36:39 GMT -5
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Post by The Deceptionist on Feb 3, 2008 16:42:16 GMT -5
shit thats pretty fucked up...
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Post by B on Feb 3, 2008 16:44:55 GMT -5
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Post by Mellow Yellow on Feb 3, 2008 17:10:30 GMT -5
The cables are very deep in the ocean, if someone were to cut them, they'd have to know just where they were and have special equipment. No ship anchor drop could have did this.
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Post by JoJo on Feb 3, 2008 17:27:34 GMT -5
Link To jpost.comNo ships were present when two marine cables carrying much of the Middle East's internet traffic were severed, announced Egypt's Ministry of Communications Sunday, contrary to earlier speculation about the causes of the cut.
The ministry had originally stated that a ship dropping its anchor on the two key cables was most likely responsible for Wednesday's cut in service that robbed Egypt, Saudi Arabia and India of much of their internet.
"A marine transport committee investigated the traffic of ships in the area, 12 hours before and after the malfunction, where the cables are located to figure out the possibility of being cut by a passing vessel and found out there were no passing ships at that time," said the statement.
The ministry added that the location, 8.3 kilometers (5 miles) from the port of Alexandria, was in a restricted area so ships would not have been allowed there to begin with.I thought the story was the anchor had caught on the cables somehow, which would be really ridiculous, because that's not how anchors are used. (throw down the anchor and then start moving) For that to happen, and the captain not know.. cmon. They certainly didn't cut themselves.
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Post by B on Feb 4, 2008 21:19:56 GMT -5
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Post by Mellow Yellow on Feb 7, 2008 4:37:01 GMT -5
5th cable cut! www.dailytech.com/Bad+to+Worse+Fifth+Undersea+Cable+Cut+in+Middle+East/article10598c.htm Reports are coming in this morning that a fifth undersea fiber optic cable was severed in the Middle East. However, by several accounts, the fifth cable cut is actually a second cut on a different segment of the FALCON cable. How exactly these cables are being cut is still unknown, though Egyptian officials maintain a ship didn't cause the breakages near the port of Alexandria.It's either undersea monsters (Cthulhu) munching on them, or perhaps an attempt to provoke Iran.
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