Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

Sat Feb 2 18:15:16 UTC 2008

$quoted_author = "Scott Francis" ;
> 
> maybe there's a lot more overlap in shipping lanes and cable runs than
> I thought ...

In confined waters like the Suez, Red Sea et. al. there is a lot of overlap.
Which makes three cables cuts in that area during bad weather not such a
stretch of the imagination.

Open waters like trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific have less overlap with
shipping lanes but still need to cross fishing areas etc.etc. But you'd be a
little more suspicious if those sites had a similar cluster of cuts unless
there was something in common (i.e. same landing station, cuts close to
shore).

cheers
marty

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