The fault in the cable, which runs from Longyearbyen in Svalbard to Andoeya on Norway's north coast, was detected between 80 - 140 miles from Longyearbyen at a point where the cable runs from less than 0.2 miles deep to over 1.3 miles deep under the surface between the Greenland, Norwegian and Barents seas
Daily Mail: Undersea cable connecting Norway and Arctic satellite station is mysteriously damaged
* An undersea comms cable connecting Svalbard and mainland Norway has failed
* The disruption could prove disastrous as there is now only one connection left
* If the other cable fails, the island will be completely cut off from the mainland
* The cables power a huge Arctic satellite station and bring internet to Svalbard
* It comes as Britain's most senior naval officer warned that Russia may look to cripple such vital undersea communications wires supporting the UK
An undersea fiberoptic cable which provides vital internet connection and communications links between mainland Norway and the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean has mysteriously been put out of action.
The outage on the subsea communications cable, which is the northern most cable of its kind in the world, first occurred on January 7 but was only revealed to the public yesterday by Space Norway, who owns and maintains the technology.
The disruption, which occurred on one of two fiberoptic cables, could prove disastrous as it means there is now only one connection between the mainland and Svalbard with no backup.
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Update #1: Undersea Cable Connecting Norway With Arctic Satellite Station Has Been Mysteriously Severed (Warzone/The Drive)
Update #2: Disruption at one of two undersea cables to Svalbard (Barents Observer)
WNU editor: Interestingly that this happened a few days after this UK warning .... UK Chief Of Defence Staff Warns Russia That Cutting Underwater Cables Will Be Seen As 'An Act Of War' (January 8, 2022).
3 comments:
Could be a false flag to frame Russia (THE FBI and CIA has been doing a lot of that, so why not other alphabet agencies>), but ...
On the other hand look where the station is at. It is at a high altitude. So I think it is a station for satellite with polar to polar orbits otherwise affectionately known as spy satellites.
If the Russians cut it with NATO, rightly or wrongly as paranoid of an invasion as they are, Russia will reap the whirlwind they richly deserve.
First transatlantic cable was in 1858. There is over 160 years of experience. People have odds on cable failure being sea floor displacement and other causes. Before 1858 there were cable laid in the Med and elsewhere.
Cutting one might be an accident. Cutting 2 well the probabilities of that are enemy fire.
Oh and one more thing. they have been pulling cable up to inspect or patch them since the start. So they will pull this cable up and get to the bottom of things. Hope they do not find Poot Poots' pasty ass.
Thank you Vlad.
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