More on Sri Lanka fiber outage....

Tue Aug 24 10:58:51 UTC 2004

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Tony Li wrote:

> Did they arrest the crew?  They have grounds on negligence
> charges...

The crew of the ship for having dropped anchor presumably in defiance of
'Undersea cable, Do not anchor here' signs, or the telco for having sited
a critical communications cable near/beneath a busy port ?

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Bruce.

( Of course, I don't know the specifics, but if you have a choice, running
  your very-special undersea cable beneath a port would seem to be a bad
  idea )