On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:20:10AM -0800, virendra rode wrote:
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On 02/27/2012 08:11 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
Is anyone seeing this ?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17179544
"East Africa's high-speed internet access has been severely disrupted after a ship dropped its anchor onto fibre-optic cables off Kenya's coast."
The ship was reported to have dropped anchor while in a restricted or prohibited area. These areas are _EXTREMELY_ well marked on charts. I can't see it being anything other than human or mechanical error: not checking if the ship is in a no-anchorage area, or the anchor chain wildcat brake _and_ the anchor chain blocking device fail simultaneously, or watch officer totally mistakes the ship's location and orders the anchor to be let go. -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mikea@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin