Abandoned ship anchor found at FALCON cable cut
The repair ship arrived on site between UAE and Oman, recovered the an end of the cable for splicing. It also found a 5-6 tonnes ship anchor abandoned near the cable cut. http://www.flagtelecom.com/index.cfm?channel=4328&NewsID=27493
Doesn't sound like sabotage to me. In fact, it sounds like bad luck. Roderick S. Beck Director of European Sales Hibernia Atlantic 1, Passage du Chantier, 75012 Paris http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com Wireless: 1-212-444-8829. Landline: 33-1-4346-3209. French Wireless: 33-6-14-33-48-97. AOL Messenger: GlobalBandwidth rod.beck@hiberniaatlantic.com rodbeck@erols.com ``Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.'' Albert Einstein. -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu on behalf of Sean Donelan Sent: Thu 2/7/2008 4:48 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Abandoned ship anchor found at FALCON cable cut The repair ship arrived on site between UAE and Oman, recovered the an end of the cable for splicing. It also found a 5-6 tonnes ship anchor abandoned near the cable cut. http://www.flagtelecom.com/index.cfm?channel=4328&NewsID=27493
Thats exactly what they want you to think! On Feb 7, 2008 2:50 PM, Rod Beck <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com> wrote:
Doesn't sound like sabotage to me. In fact, it sounds like bad luck.
Roderick S. Beck Director of European Sales Hibernia Atlantic 1, Passage du Chantier, 75012 Paris http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com Wireless: 1-212-444-8829. Landline: 33-1-4346-3209. French Wireless: 33-6-14-33-48-97. AOL Messenger: GlobalBandwidth rod.beck@hiberniaatlantic.com rodbeck@erols.com ``Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.'' Albert Einstein.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu on behalf of Sean Donelan Sent: Thu 2/7/2008 4:48 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Abandoned ship anchor found at FALCON cable cut
The repair ship arrived on site between UAE and Oman, recovered the an end of the cable for splicing. It also found a 5-6 tonnes ship anchor abandoned near the cable cut.
http://www.flagtelecom.com/index.cfm?channel=4328&NewsID=27493
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:29:38 -0500 "Jason Seemann" <jseemann@gmail.com> wrote:
Thats exactly what they want you to think!
No, it's perfectly legitimate. It's the anchor from the USS Jimmy Carter... (Nuclear submarines do indeed have anchors; see http://boomer.user-services.com/drydock/990313-12-675.html ) It had to leave in a hurry when the cable repair ship showed up, so its anchor was left behind....
On Feb 7, 2008 2:50 PM, Rod Beck <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com> wrote:
Doesn't sound like sabotage to me. In fact, it sounds like bad luck.
Roderick S. Beck Director of European Sales Hibernia Atlantic 1, Passage du Chantier, 75012 Paris http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com Wireless: 1-212-444-8829. Landline: 33-1-4346-3209. French Wireless: 33-6-14-33-48-97. AOL Messenger: GlobalBandwidth rod.beck@hiberniaatlantic.com rodbeck@erols.com ``Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.'' Albert Einstein.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu on behalf of Sean Donelan Sent: Thu 2/7/2008 4:48 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Abandoned ship anchor found at FALCON cable cut
The repair ship arrived on site between UAE and Oman, recovered the an end of the cable for splicing. It also found a 5-6 tonnes ship anchor abandoned near the cable cut.
http://www.flagtelecom.com/index.cfm?channel=4328&NewsID=27493
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
Doesn't sound like sabotage to me. In fact, it sounds like bad luck.
Will this now be termed "Anchor fade" in the future?
It's only being occurring for ~160 years at this point, so clearly it's a new and exciting phenomena.
Tuc
I think in order to be consistent it has to be: subho backanchor Feel free to come up with your own, and start making up jokes like: how do you find an underseas cable? let an anchor fall and see where it lands. allan On Feb 7, 2008, at 6:21 PM, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
Doesn't sound like sabotage to me. In fact, it sounds like bad luck.
Will this now be termed "Anchor fade" in the future?
Tuc
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