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Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break
From: Mike Andrews <mikea () mikea ath cx>
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:04:43 -0600
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 09:33:04PM -0430, Greg Ihnen wrote:
On Feb 28, 2012, at 10:53 AM, Mike Andrews wrote:On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:20:10AM -0800, virendra rode wrote:-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 02/27/2012 08:11 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:Is anyone seeing this ? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17179544 "East Africa's high-speed internet access has been severely disrupted after a ship dropped its anchor onto fibre-optic cables off Kenya's coast."The ship was reported to have dropped anchor while in a restricted or prohibited area. These areas are _EXTREMELY_ well marked on charts. I can't see it being anything other than human or mechanical error: not checking if the ship is in a no-anchorage area, or the anchor chain wildcat brake _and_ the anchor chain blocking device fail simultaneously, or watch officer totally mistakes the ship's location and orders the anchor to be let go. -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mikea () mikea ath cx Tired old sysadminOne more option: engine or steering failure making dropping the hook an urgent necessity. What are the chances you'd hit a fiber-optic cable. ; -)
Good call. I'd not seen that one, but should have, and engineering failures seem to be happening (or to be reported) rather more than they used to. -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mikea () mikea ath cx Tired old sysadmin
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- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break, (continued)
- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break Rodrick Brown (Feb 29)
- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 29)
- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break Justin M. Streiner (Feb 29)
- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break Marshall Eubanks (Feb 29)
- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break Mehmet Akcin (Feb 29)
- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break Bill Woodcock (Feb 29)
- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break bmanning (Feb 29)
- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break Dmitry Burkov (Feb 29)
- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break Rob Evans (Feb 29)
- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break Jan Schaumann (Feb 29)
- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break Mike Andrews (Feb 29)