[103618] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Tue Apr 8 21:57:01 2008
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 01:45:17 +0000
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0804081926590.26222@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 19:31:47 -0400 (EDT)
Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
>
>
> Wow, civilian satellite images are getting very sharp.
>
> http://www.hindu.com/2008/04/07/stories/2008040759181200.htm
>
> Using satellite images of ship movements in the area, Reliance
> Globalcom identified two ships in the area at the time which
> may have damaged the cable.
>
> Reliance also confirmed the cable was damaged because of "jerks and
> force of the ship."
>
Thanks. I wish, though, the article had said *which* cable cuts those
ships were responsible for -- remember that Egyptian authorities had
said that their videos showed no ships off Alexandria.
There's a bit more at
http://web20.telecomtv.com/pages/?newsid=42942&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10&view=news
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
