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Damn, again?
Apparently The Chinese vessel Xin Xin Tiang was sailing over it when it happened
Another candidate has also appeared:
According to information from the maritime traffic monitoring service Marinetraffic, the tanker Eagle S had noticeably slowed its speed at the time the cable damage was identified.
Based on monitoring data, a border guard patrol vessel directed the tanker away from the area near the Porkkala Peninsula early in the evening on Christmas Day. By early Thursday morning, both vessels were still in the vicinity of Porkkala.
According to Marinetraffic, the oil tanker was en route from St. Petersburg to Egypt. The British maritime publication Lloyd's List, which covers maritime traffic, reports that the Eagle S is part of Russia's "shadow fleet."
...and another incident has been reported too...
The German data center operator Hetzner also reported early Thursday that there were issues with the network connection between Germany and Finland, Helsingin Sanomat wrote on Thursday.
"There is currently a fault in the main network connection between Frankfurt and Helsinki. This may cause short-term latency issues. We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding," the company stated in a press release.
That particular one is Taiwanese I believe, and passed several minutes before the outage maintaining a constant pace.
Finnish border guard has stopped a tanker registered to Cook Islands that's part of the Russian shadow fleet, which slowed down significantly while crossing the cable and was on site when the outage started.
Finnish border guard has stopped a tanker registered to Cook Islands that’s part of the Russian shadow fleet,
I think they have the right suspect - that ship did some maneuvering which was very odd. Pekka Lund has posted an animation of how it behaved:
https://bsky.app/profile/pekka.bsky.social/post/3le5jowncic2t
Edit: one can consider this almost solved. Motivation and who paid whom remain to be figured out, but when the border guard asked the ship to lift its anchors, it lifted an anchor chain without an anchor attached.
suprise
Time to ban ALL Chinese vessels from the area.
If China can redraw their oceanographic borders, so can Europe.
When will the world deal with Putin properly?
When his candidate elect causes a recession in the US, triggering a global recession, causing the energy market to retract, affecting his ability to pay his window cleaners, causing him to take a terrible fall out of one when attempting to clean them himself
What should they do?
Bomb the shit out of the russian military and enegy sector by flooding Ukraine with weapons.
What I think people over here actually will do, is - start patrolling the shorter, more critical cable and pipeline routes with sea drones - and if the drone operators spot a ship with a lowered anchor, summon a proper military vessel to do more complex procedures.
...summon a proper military vessel...
Like a missile.
One will surely want to keep the ship, to auction it off and cover repair costs.
Send a bill to the governing body of the country where it's registered and add on a hefty service charge to cover labor/materials/cleanup.
Putler strikes again
Via a Chinese ship anchor.
I've always found it with that we just have these very important wires just lying there exposed on the sea bed... You'd think this kind of stack would have happened much more previously
I wonder what he gets out of it. I can understand the Kremlin making arson attacks happening in Europe for example, but this? What's the end goal here?
For me it will just awaken the sleepy countries faster.
Hope they don't "rush in" to any conclusions.
I actually hope they do rush - not with conclusions but with diagnostics - just a little.
If it's another spontaneous breakdown (there have been some) then there's plenty of time. If however someone damaged it, then hours = kilometers.
However, this cable has previously had transformer malfunctions, a short circuit at the site of climbing onto ground (ground shifted over years - I hope it hasn't shifted again), but in light of recent power games on the Baltic sea, it would also be a candidate for plowing with anchors.
Timing is pretty annoying. Baltic countries are leaving the old Soviet power grid synchronization area (physically disconnecting from Russia and Belarus and synchronizing with continental Europe) really very soon (in about a month) and nobody here would appreciate power connections being disrupted at this time.
Hmm. Fishy. The article makes it sound like they sea it as an accident. Hopefully this incident doesn't rise up any waves.
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