In a conversation w/ US Navy this morning, it was
said that any ship over 300 metric tons is supposed
to beacon who and what it is, and that the ships of
interest, which are explicitly tracked at all times
in any ocean, are those that do not. Ipso facto,
it is either a small boat or who it was can be
ascertained.
BBC says succinctly:
> FLAG Telecoms operate the Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe
> (FLAG), a 28,000km (17,400 mile) long submarine communications
> cable.
>
> SEA-ME-WE 4, or the South East Asia-Middle East-West Europe
> 4 project, is a submarine cable linking South East Asia
> to Europe via the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East.
>
> Neither of the cable operators have confirmed the cause
> or location of the outage but some reports suggest it was
> caused by a ship's anchor near the port of Alexandria in
> Egypt.
In other words, they may be separate cables with
a common landing site.
--dan
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