#underseacable — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #underseacable, aggregated by home.social.
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🥽 Iran mulls taking full control of all 7 undersea internet cables passing through Strait of Hormuz
｢ “In the proposed governance model for the Strait of Hormuz, the passage of submarine cables must be conducted with a permit and payment of tolls, and foreign companies must also operate under Iranian laws,” said Iran’s FARS News Agency in a post. ｣
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🥽 Iran mulls taking full control of all 7 undersea internet cables passing through Strait of Hormuz
｢ “In the proposed governance model for the Strait of Hormuz, the passage of submarine cables must be conducted with a permit and payment of tolls, and foreign companies must also operate under Iranian laws,” said Iran’s FARS News Agency in a post. ｣
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🥽 Iran mulls taking full control of all 7 undersea internet cables passing through Strait of Hormuz
｢ “In the proposed governance model for the Strait of Hormuz, the passage of submarine cables must be conducted with a permit and payment of tolls, and foreign companies must also operate under Iranian laws,” said Iran’s FARS News Agency in a post. ｣
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🥽 Iran mulls taking full control of all 7 undersea internet cables passing through Strait of Hormuz
｢ “In the proposed governance model for the Strait of Hormuz, the passage of submarine cables must be conducted with a permit and payment of tolls, and foreign companies must also operate under Iranian laws,” said Iran’s FARS News Agency in a post. ｣
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🥽 Iran mulls taking full control of all 7 undersea internet cables passing through Strait of Hormuz
｢ “In the proposed governance model for the Strait of Hormuz, the passage of submarine cables must be conducted with a permit and payment of tolls, and foreign companies must also operate under Iranian laws,” said Iran’s FARS News Agency in a post. ｣
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#Undersea cable investments double to $13 billion in 2yr — ever-growing danger of cable cuts looms
Amount is double 2022-2024 spend, and much as you'd expect, it's driven primarily by #bigtech (Meta Amazon Microsoft Google). The report claims that existing cables already cover roughly 1M mi, and that number is getting larger every year. Paul Gabla from #Alcatel, the world's largest #underseacable maker and installer, remarks Big Tech companies made up about 50% of market
https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/undersea-comms-cable-investments-double-to-usd13-billion-in-over-two-years-ever-growing-danger-of-cable-cuts-looms -
TM joins Candle, 8000km submarine cable system consortium connecting ASEAN and Japan #asean #candle #ips #meta #nec #news #ptxlsmarttelecomsejahteratbk #softbank #submarinecable #telco #tm #underseacable #xlsmart
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TM Joins Submarine Cable Consortium Running Through ASEAN, Taiwan, Japan #submarinecable #tm #underseacable
https://www.lowyat.net/2025/366879/tm-joins-submarine-cable-consortium-asean-taiwan-japan/
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Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Russian forces pierce Ukrainian defense in Donetsk Oblast, bypassing fortifications — Ukrainian drones strike Russian missile component plant in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast — Russia’s Saratov oil refinery halts operations after Ukrainian drone strike — What were so many deaths for? Ukrainians react to Trump-Putin ‘peace plan’ ahead of Alaska summit … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/08/tuesday-august-12-2025/
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Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Russian forces pierce Ukrainian defense in Donetsk Oblast, bypassing fortifications — Ukrainian drones strike Russian missile component plant in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast — Russia’s Saratov oil refinery halts operations after Ukrainian drone strike — What were so many deaths for? Ukrainians react to Trump-Putin ‘peace plan’ ahead of Alaska summit … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/08/tuesday-august-12-2025/
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#Traficom boarded Eagle S to perform port state control (PSC) inspection. Courses of action Traficom may impose on a ship with deficiencies (in order of ascending gravity) are:
- Deficiencies can be rectified within 14 days for minor infractions.
- Under specific conditions, deficiencies can be rectified when the ship arrives at the next port.
- Deficiencies must be rectified before the ship can depart the port.
- Detention of the ship occurs. -
It appears that Russia has figured out a secondary function for their grey fleet: Hybrid warfare.
They create a "shipping company" to some country outside of the sanctions. The company likely has only a single asset: the vessel itself. The vessels are very old and in poor condition and have no insurance. A crew is hired to operate the vessel.
Normally these vessel are used to circumvent the sanctions in place, for example to sell Russian oil.
As a recent new development it appears that these vessels are also used to perform hybrid operations that target undersea cables. Prime example is the Baltic sea that is relatively shallow, and the cable locations are well documented. There has been multiple recent incidents involving ships that "accidentally" drag their anchors and cause damage.
The operation likely also involves finding crew members willing to take a compensation for performing the malicious task of dragging the anchor on the seabed. This is made easier by the fact that the crew can claim ignorance or bad seamanship. The threat to these persons is very limited, as the Nordic countries have very lenient legal systems. It is unlikely that they would be incarcerated for a significant amount of time, even if found guilty of sabotage.
The payout vs the investment is significant. The damage caused by the disruption of the undersea #telecommunications and electricity cables likely far exceeds the value of the ship or the cargo combined. The involved ship can just ignore any requests to stop or allow for inspections, as long as they are in international waters.
Considering there is a really high barrier in disrupting international shipping, anyone willing to abuse the system can continue to do so until significant changes will be made.
#hybridwarfare #sanctions #underseacable #estlink2 #ESTLINK #clion1
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It appears that the cable has been cut deliberately. Finnish Border Guard ship Turva has stopped the tanker Eagle S suspected to be involved in the incident. https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:712379/mmsi:518998865/imo:9329760/vessel:EAGLE_S
YLE news: https://yle.fi/a/74-20133516 (in english)