Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage

Wed Apr 9 04:15:39 UTC 2008

Sean Donelan wrote:

> Awesome, so could anyone buy a copy of the same images?  Which satellite
> do you think happened to be taking images of the area with these ships 
> near the time the cables were broken?  Which company is selling that set 
> of images?

Wouldn't it be reasonable that, when the break occurred, they used their 
optical time domain reflectometer to compute the approximate location of 
the break, and then just called around for whoever had the best images, 
or who could quickly task the satellite to get an image?

--Patrick