Swedish police investigators have completed their inspection of two fiber-optic cable breaks in the Baltic, and they have concluded that the Chinese bulker Yi Peng 3 severed them by dragging anchor for about 100 miles along the seabed, according to the Wall Street Journal. 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. This conversation with Raymond Powell – founder and director of SeaLight, a maritime transparency project of the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Stanford University, and retired U. Air Force colonel with 35 years of service – is the 446th in “The Trans-Pacific View Insight. TAT-8 was the 8th transatlantic communications cable and first transatlantic fiber-optic cable, carrying 280 Mbit/s (40,000 telephone circuits) between the United States, United Kingdom and France.
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