[73471] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Borchers)
Tue Aug 24 11:42:45 2004
From: "Mark Borchers" <mborchers@igillc.com>
To: "'nanog list'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Cc: "'Bruce Campbell'" <bc-nanog@vicious.dropbear.id.au>,
"'Carlos Friacas'" <cfriacas@fccn.pt>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 10:42:57 -0500
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0408241356310.69950@atlas.fccn.pt>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Bruce Campbell wrote:
>
> >
> > On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Tony Li wrote:
> >
> > > Did they arrest the crew? They have grounds on negligence
> > > charges...
> >
> > The crew of the ship for having dropped anchor presumably
> in defiance of
> > 'Undersea cable, Do not anchor here' signs, or the telco
> for having sited
> > a critical communications cable near/beneath a busy port ?
Conceivably neither, if...
- the cable was in a well-charted cable area (equivalent to
"do not dig" easements on land which AFAIK are also present
in densely populated/high traffic areas)
AND
- the ship was dragging anchor because of severe weather
forcing it toward shoals or other ships (i.e. safety of
ship and crew)
