A major undersea data cable connecting Finland and Germany, the C-Lion1, has been severed, with Finnish authorities reporting that all fiber connections along the 1,200-kilometre Baltic Sea route are cut.
Discovered during a routine check by Finnish data provider Cinia, the break is under investigation, with no immediate explanation for the disruption.
Officials have noted that such incidents rarely occur in these waters without external impact, although natural and human activities, such as shipping or fishing, are common causes of undersea cable damage.
The disruption follows heightened scrutiny of undersea infrastructure after incidents like the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage and a gas pipeline break between Finland and Estonia last month.
While no direct evidence links this event to malicious activity, the cable’s proximity to critical infrastructure, such as the Nord Stream pipelines, raises concerns. For now, Finland’s internet traffic is rerouting through alternative pathways, as authorities work to determine the cause and repair the damage.
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“Some X users have pointed to a crude tanker as a potential suspect in the undersea cable disruption, with One X user speculating, “Potential cause of C-lion1 cable break the crude oil tanker Magic Lady on its way from St. Petersburg to Dakar, which behaved strangely 2024-11-18 10:23:17 UTC in the Baltic Sea.”
Also, Putin stated a couple of weeks ago that he had received information that submarine cables were going to be targeted.
Official allegations of sabotage were made in the EU as: two of Finland’s five nuclear plants had to be shut down; a key Norwegian oilfield was shut by a power outage; the support cable on a Finnish suspension bridge broke; and two key Baltic EU data cables were severed. The Chinese vessel Yi Peng has been flagged as a possible cable culprit and at time of writing was forcibly moored in Denmark. This is likely to prompt a strong Chinese diplomatic response; and perhaps an EU one if it proves a Chinese ship damaged key seafloor infrastructure (again: this also happened to a gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia in October 2023).
A Danish Navy vessel boarded the Chinese cargo vessel Yi Ping after it was discovered it had destroyed 2 undersea telecom cables in the Baltic Sea. Denmark exercised the right under Art. X of the Submarine Cables Convention. It’s been done only once before, by the USA in 1959
Payback for the destroyed Russian gas line between Russia and the west I suppose.
The first order of war is to cut communications. Satellites can’t carry the commercial load of fibre. Not as cheap to destroy, either.
BAWHAWHAWEHAEHAW!!!!
Smoke signals and jammed ham radio signals for both voice and Morse Code are now in play!
The Woodpecker is still in operation as the Russian Kill Switch…BAWHAWHAWHAWHAWHAW!!!!
All this, while the world is 2 week away from a full-hot and totally-blown nuclear war.
BUT!
TVNZ, RNZ, etc. will only talk abour Rugby Teams and their scores…
Here’s an example of being ‘on the field’ when that which has been ignored happens;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjatJ36cJvM
EVERYONE SHOULD BE CALLING PARLIAMENT EXPRESSING THEIR DISAPPROVAL OF JOE BIDEN’S ACTIONS!!!
They need to impeach Biden.
The Demoncrats are warmongers
Maybe the prophecy of the bear in Daniel 7:5 (KJV) And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.
The three ribs are Finland, Sweden and Norway.