Undersea Cable Connecting Norway With Arctic Satellite Station Has Been Mysteriously Severed

The Drive ^ | 01 10 2022 | Thomas Newdick

[yesthatjallen]

09JAN22 - Flag of NorwaySvalbard Undersea Cable System outage

"#SpaceNorway reports one of their two cables linking Longyearbyen and Svalsat Satellite station in Svalbard with continental Flag of Norway was cut Friday

Remaining cable fully operational, - redundancy"

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[Secret Agent Man]

Russians

Israel

Usa

China

Those are my guesses, not necessarily in any order

[Diogenesis]

Satellite antennas here at Svalbard are linked to mainland Norway via two subsea fiberoptic cables.

Disruption at one of two undersea cables to Svalbard There is no redundant between the Arctic archipelago and mainland Norway after loss of power in the area where the fiberoptic cable follows the seabed down to a depth of 2,700 meters in the Greenland Sea.

[Leaning Right]

The cable was probably severed because of Climate Change.

Everything bad that happens anywhere is caused by either Trump or Climate Change. And I don’t think Trump is involved here.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Not just the furthest north, but the furthest north of its kind anywhere in the world!

[DannyTN]

Would this satellite station provide data on Ukraine and the Russian forces surrounding it?

That’s my guess. Russia and motive is Ukraine.

[mass55th]

Those damn Killer Whales.

[El Cid]

You left the Kraken off of your list.

[CTyank]

Alien invasion approach route secured.

[drSteve78]

Someone went through a lot of trouble to cut these off.

[Carl Vehse]

My guess: the Russkies practicing for more significant cable cuts elsewhere.

[PAR35]

The cable was probably severed because of Climate Change.

No, it died of Covid.

[SecondAmendment]

[Radix]

Remember those halcyon days when everything bad that happened was Bush’s fault?

[43north]

Seismic activity often plays a role in these kinds of incidents. The seafloor is over 8,000 ft deep in some areas that the cable traverses. Lots of stuff can happen at that depth. No submarines can go that deep so unless they announce at what depth it was disrupted speculation that it was man made activity is just that - speculation.

[SaveFerris]

The Russians have lost another submarine?/movie

[17th Miss Regt]

Those damn Killer Whales.

Maybe one named Stacey?

[algore]

I am guessing that they are glad to be good customers of Elon,

Hopefully Starlink has essential connectivity functions covered.