24 Aug
2004
24 Aug
'04
8:57 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 ?
--==-- Bruce.
( Of course, I don't know the specifics, but if you have a choice, running your very-special undersea cable beneath a port would seem to be a bad idea )
...an alternative ISP would have made big bucks during those blockout days using some satellite gear, no? ;-)