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All it takes is a ship "forgetting" to raise the anchor and running it over the cable, snapping it.

Might have happened outside Finland last year [1].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/estonia-says-chinese-sh...



Also happened in Anguilla (Caribbean Sea) last year—some rich person's yacht ran over the ECFS cable [0]. Google went in afterwards and tested one of their moonshot projects—free-space laser communications [1]—as a temporary backhaul.

[0] https://theanguillian.com/2023/02/rapid-response-from-flow-r...

[1] https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231101666271/en/Lib...




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