[150635] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Ihnen)
Tue Feb 28 21:04:24 2012
From: Greg Ihnen <os10rules@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120228152315.GC43304@mikea.ath.cx>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:33:04 -0430
To: Mike Andrews <mikea@mikea.ath.cx>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 28, 2012, at 10:53 AM, Mike Andrews wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:20:10AM -0800, virendra rode wrote:
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>> On 02/27/2012 08:11 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
>>> Is anyone seeing this ?
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>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17179544
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>>> "East Africa's high-speed internet access has been severely =
disrupted
>>> after a ship dropped its anchor onto fibre-optic cables off Kenya's
>>> coast."
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> The ship was reported to have dropped anchor while in a restricted or
> prohibited area. These areas are _EXTREMELY_ well marked on charts. I =
can't
> see it being anything other than human or mechanical error: not =
checking if
> the ship is in a no-anchorage area, or the anchor chain wildcat brake =
_and_
> the anchor chain blocking device fail simultaneously, or watch officer
> totally mistakes the ship's location and orders the anchor to be let =
go.
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> Mike Andrews, W5EGO
> mikea@mikea.ath.cx
> Tired old sysadmin=20
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One more option: engine or steering failure making dropping the hook an =
urgent necessity. What are the chances you'd hit a fiber-optic cable. ; =
- )
Greg=
