Abandoned ship anchor found at FALCON cable cut

Thu Feb 7 20:37:56 UTC 2008

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:29:38 -0500
"Jason Seemann" <jseemann at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thats exactly what they want you to think!

No, it's perfectly legitimate.  It's the anchor from the USS Jimmy
Carter...  (Nuclear submarines do indeed have anchors; see
http://boomer.user-services.com/drydock/990313-12-675.html )  It had
to leave in a hurry when the cable repair ship showed up, so its anchor
was left behind....

> 
> On Feb 7, 2008 2:50 PM, Rod Beck <Rod.Beck at hiberniaatlantic.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >  Doesn't sound like sabotage to me. In fact, it sounds like bad
> > luck.
> >
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nanog at merit.edu on behalf of Sean Donelan
> > Sent: Thu 2/7/2008 4:48 PM
> > To: nanog at merit.edu
> > Subject: Abandoned ship anchor found at FALCON cable cut
> >
> >
> >
> > The repair ship arrived on site between UAE and Oman, recovered
> > the an end of the cable for splicing.  It also found a 5-6 tonnes
> > ship anchor abandoned near the cable cut.
> >
> > http://www.flagtelecom.com/index.cfm?channel=4328&NewsID=27493
> >
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