Posted on 01/11/2022 6:31:51 PM PST by yesthatjallen
An undersea fiberoptic cable located between mainland Norway and the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean has been put out of action in a still-mysterious incident. The outage on the subsea communications cable — the furthest north of its kind anywhere in the world — follows an incident last year in which different cables linking an undersea surveillance network off the Norwegian coast were severed, a story that we covered in detail at the time.
The latest disruption involves one of two fiberoptic cables that enable communications between the Norwegian mainland and Norwegian-administered Svalbard that lies between the mainland and the North Pole. The outage occurred on the morning of January 7, but was first widely reported yesterday. The extent of the damage is not clear from the official press release from Space Norway, the country's space agency, which maintains the cables primarily in support of the Svalbard Satellite Station (SvalSat), but it is significant enough that it is expected to require the services of an ocean-going cable-laying vessel.
In addition to the SvalSat facilities, the fiber-optic cables provide broadband internet to Svalbard. The SvalSat site consists of more than 100 satellite antennas on a mountain plateau and is the largest commercial ground station of its kind.
Being located between mainland Norway and the North Pole means that SvalSat is in much demand with operators of polar-orbiting satellites, being one of only two ground stations from which data can be downloaded from these types of satellites on each of the Earth’s rotations.
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It could be sabotage or maybe something else but it’s disconcerting.
In the fifties I seem to remember there was some scifi movie where something like this happened because of some horrific underwater monster.
THATS right, THATS right..my bad.
Anyway..its coming, and we aint gonna like it.
Drag us right down the shi# hole with them because they dont want it out that they are operating the biggest skimming operation (Ukraine) since the Outfit in Vegas,
He actually has a good point. NO sub goes that deep unless it is some kind of specialized model with surface support. That kind of operation would be easily noticed leaving port.
It’ll probably be a landslide or something happening deep.
Remember how much the Russians had a problem getting down to the Kursk to perform work. It was sitting on the bottom at 354 feet.
In the past 6 years, this type of Russian ship has been associated with multiple cable problems around the world -
https://www.lawfareblog.com/evaluating-russian-threat-undersea-cables
Russian did it.
Yup. The usual suspect right there.
Within the past week, there was a thread on FR about one of those Scandinavian countries having a sub trying to track a supposed Russian sub they suspected of trying to cut cables.
They failed and lost it.
This is called a russian submarine. Of course, they will eventually say it was caused by a big anchor from a container ship magically dragging along thw bottom to cut the cable.
A ROV will be dispatched to determine the cause. It will be clear which scenario(of many possible ones) is correct.
You would be a fool to trust the Russians - it is largely through their decades-long efforts (and exiled Fabian socialists from Europe) that the US left is as far left as it is, so far left that the Clintons, Obama, Biden and so on were able to be taken seriously and even run for office rather than be blacklisted.
Yup, Communist manifesto goals
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