On 17–18 November 2024, two submarine telecommunication cables, the BCS East-West Interlink and C-Lion1 fibre-optic cables, were disrupted in the Baltic Sea. The incidents involving both cables occurred in close proximity to each other and near-simultaneously, which prompted accusations from. Two cables linking Europe to the Middle East and Asia have been reportedly cut in the Red Sea, affecting internet connections. On the afternoon of March 11th, 2011, Mitsuyoshi Hirai, the chief engineer of the cable maintenance ship Ocean Link, was sitting in his cabin 20 miles off Japan's eastern coast, completing the paperwork that comes at the end of every repair. This vital cable connects Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, and its disruption could have led to major impacts on global financial markets and. Taiwan's Coast Guard prepares to board the Togo-flagged cargo ship Hong Tai 58, suspected of cutting an undersea communications cable on February 25, 2025 [Taiwanese Coast Guard via AP] Taipei, Taiwan – When Taiwan seized a Chinese-crewed cargo ship suspected of deliberately severing one of its. In late 2024 and early 2025, several important data connections across the Baltic Sea were broken, including between Sweden and Lithuania. The cable breaks received a lot of attention and raised questions about the resiliency of undersea cables. Marija Furdek Prekratic, associate professor at.
