There have now been six undersea internet cables cut since December 2007. I had been having a hard time visualizing where they were, but ScaryClown, as always comes through.
Anybody who thinks these events aren’t sabotage is probably a professional pundit. There are apparently 25 ships that cruise the globe fixing cable wear 24/7 and there’s a cable break on average every 3 days. What triggered the hysteria, including mine, was the size of the original break – it took down about 70 percent of Egypt’s traffic, and Egypt is not a small country.
So I can go back to worrying about something else, like uploading my videos.
Leave it to you cous to keep the ‘mapping’ posts coming. You’re actually doing a better job of map posting than the Canadian Cartographic Association’s own blog (http://ccablog.blogspot.com/).
Cheers & Thanks
This just in from Spence:
“yes now I’m at work…..I heard about this and I read it … was ships dropping their anchor right onto the cable…….I will win the lottery before that happens!!”
I thought for sure it was sabotage, but it’s just wear and tear. I know about wear and tear!