More on Sri Lanka fiber outage....

Tue Aug 24 15:42:57 UTC 2004

> On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Bruce Campbell wrote:
> 
> >
> > 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 ?

Conceivably neither, if...

- the cable was in a well-charted cable area (equivalent to
  "do not dig" easements on land which AFAIK are also present
  in densely populated/high traffic areas)

AND

- the ship was dragging anchor because of severe weather
  forcing it toward shoals or other ships (i.e. safety of
  ship and crew)