An ambiguous report from Dubai suggests that a total of five undersea cables have been cut.
A total of five cables being operated by two submarine cable operators have been damaged with a fault in each.
I have not seen any other information on this.
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Has a fifth cable been cut?
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Posted on: February 7, 2008 12:05 PM, by Greg Laden
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Flag telecom is reporting they recovered an abandoned ships anchor at the site of the Falcon cable cut in the Persian Gulf
See http://yorkshire-ranter.blogspot.com/2008/02/i-am-lineman-for-county.html
Posted by: Steinn Sigurdsson | February 7, 2008 3:05 PM
Greg:
I've been keeping my blog post on the cable issues up-to-date. Here's a quick summary:
1. VSNL's SeaMeWe-4, 12.334 km from Alexandria, in the Mediterranean. Currently under repair, should be fixed by this weekend.
2. Qtel's cable from Haloul (Qatar) to Das (UAE), in the Persian Gulf. Probably not a cut, but damaged power system due to weather.
3. FLAG's Europe-Asia (FEA Segment D), 8.3 km from Alexandria, in the Mediterranean. Currently under repair, should be fixed by this weekend by cable ship CS Certamen.
4. FLAG's FALCON (FALCON Segment 2), 56 km from Dubai, in the Persian Gulf. Currently under repair, should be fixed by this weekend. This cut was due to a ship's anchor--an abandoned 5-6 ton anchor was recovered by FLAG at the site (see photo in FLAG's update [flagtelecom.com], PDF)
5. FLAG's Europe-Asia (FEA Segment M), 28 km from Penang, Malaysia. Scheduled for repair on February 11 by cable ship CS Asean Restorer.
6. FLAG's FALCON (FALCON Segments 7a and 7b), two faults on the cable between Kuwait and Bandar Abbas, Iran, scheduled for repair on February 19.
Keep in mind that this is all occurring during extremely bad weather in the region, and not all of these issues involve cuts. This is not unprecedented, either--in December 2006 there were nine submarine cable cuts between Taiwan and Japan due to earthquakes.
Posted by: Jim Lippard | February 7, 2008 4:12 PM
Posted by: Virgil Samms | February 7, 2008 6:19 PM
I served on the certamen for many years, when she was the john cadot. Could you please send me a recent pitcher
and is she still in service
Posted by: Neville Burridge | March 14, 2009 11:41 PM