24 Aug
2004
24 Aug
'04
11:42 a.m.
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Bruce Campbell wrote:
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Tony Li wrote:
Did they arrest the crew? They have grounds on negligence charges...
The crew of the ship for having dropped anchor presumably
in defiance of
'Undersea cable, Do not anchor here' signs, or the telco for having sited a critical communications cable near/beneath a busy port ?
Conceivably neither, if... - the cable was in a well-charted cable area (equivalent to "do not dig" easements on land which AFAIK are also present in densely populated/high traffic areas) AND - the ship was dragging anchor because of severe weather forcing it toward shoals or other ships (i.e. safety of ship and crew)