I'm trying to make sense of this.. - Welding Gear is expensive, underwater gear is insanely expensive. - Welding is pretty difficult.. - Underwater welding requires knowledge of SCUBA *AND* welding techniques under water. - There are 8 undersea cables located near the cable that was being cut. - There are a TON of EDFA's in the area, which are much easier to destroy. - Of the 8 undersea cables leaving Alexandria, only one was being tampered with? Does this not look like something that is either state sponsored, or someone trying to break a certain circuit? Obviously we won't know for some time what the circumstances were (if ever), but going after a specific cable with a welder sounds like someone had a real reason. And if this *WAS* state sponsored, I would be really curious as to why they did not use regular UDT guys with regular UDT stuff that goes boom under water. Not to mention the fact that they were using a welder, underwater, on a 15kV -48VDC fiber optic plant in dirty(ish) salt water - which sounds like a pretty bad idea. On 3/28/13 1:50 PM, "Andrew Latham" <lathama@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
nyt reports capture of scuba divers attempting to cut telecom egypt undersea fiber.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/03/27/world/middleeast/ap-ml-egypt- internet.html
how likely is it that a diver can cut an armored cable close to shore? without using explosives I mean...
Its quite easy with a Thermal Lance...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_lance
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