The rumours floating around about this being sabotage, with no hard evidence supporting such claims, is pretty wild.
No hard evidence?
- Marine tracking shows the suspect vessel deviating from normal course, and stopping twice, each time in the area of where each cable was damaged.
- After the vessel started moving again, each cable went offline shortly after.
- The Danish navy has stopped the suspect vessel, and is holding it pending investigation.
- The same country admitted to dragging an anchor hundreds of miles , damaging multiple subsea cables and other infrastructure just 13 months ago. Of course, it was an 'accident' .
There's plenty of evidence (both direct and circumstantial) for the claims being made to be reasonable.