Numerous undersea communications being cut - deliberate sabotage, or Godzilla?
(image from Benjamin Dewhurst)
Recently a series of major transoceanic communications cables were found severed. This caused a major disruption of communications in Iran and Qatar. So far there are 5 cables reported to have been cut. Some researchers are saying as many as 8 have been severed. The cables carry data all throughout the Middle-East, Northern Africa, and Southern Asia. TeleGeography - a subsidiary of PriMetrica - a communications firm that provides communications analysis and statistics - seems to be very eager to write these events off as an accident.
But it seems that the causation of the interruption has still not been figured out. There are many theories going around, from anchor-dragging ships to sea monsters. However, ships have been ruled out and sea monsters…well - that would make a great movie, so we should keep that theory in the mix. A lot of conspiracies have cropped up, but not all of them can go away. One tactic that an invading force takes is to cut off communications to the country so that no one really knows what’s going on. But apparently there are still some communications going on as around 55% of operations have been rerouted.
And yet they still don’t know what’s happening. More cables keeping cropping up cut, and outages are moving around. Every time they start fixing everything…there’s loss again.
Well - I guess we’ll see. I try to keep this post updated with information as it comes out.
