[102366] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Abandoned ship anchor found at FALCON cable cut
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Thu Feb 7 15:46:01 2008
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 20:37:56 +0000
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: "Jason Seemann" <jseemann@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9fb8ab2e0802071229y2ec09f5bod6c932f3e9440754@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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.
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> > 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
