On 4 Jun 2024, at 17:26, Mark Tinka via zanog-discuss wrote:
On 6/4/24 15:55, Ron B via zanog-discuss wrote:
But what I can say is that the repair vessels have no reason to provide incorrect information for the cable failures, as that does nobody any good, and would hurt their credibility. While submarine cable operators are generally secretive, they are quite open about what caused an outage.
I’m not one for conspiracies but….. would they really want to share RFOs if it was sabotage and risk losing business?
I had (admittedly at a braai) a conversation with a marine professional that feels it would be hard for vessels involved with sabotage to not be flagged as suspicious activity and get away with it but we do live in the James bond era so…
It is my understanding that the last WACS repair was completed by moving the repaired section farther out from the fault location to avoid a similar issue in the past.
We shall just have to wait and see if that helps, or not.
Submarines are the new vessel of choice so next round of drinks is on you when it happens :)