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0 pointsdiggan1y ago0 comments

> I'm Finnish. I don't recall ever hearing about a cable being cut in the Baltic Sea before 2022

I'm Swedish, if that matters, and recall reading about (accidental) cable breakages all the way back to at least 2010 sometime. As mentioned elsewhere, there are between 100-200 cable breakages annually

> Do cables break?

> Yes! Cable faults are common. On average, there are over 100 each year.

> Unintentional damage from fishing vessels and ships dragging anchors account for two-thirds of all cable faults.

https://blog.telegeography.com/what-happens-when-submarine-c...

It seems like the media have ramped up reporting on cable breaks, because of the context, but seemingly none of them have been confirmed to be intentional, at least as far as I know. But I agree that it seems highly suspicious, also the recent water-supply sabotage on Gotland seems related to this all (https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/Vz2em4/misstankt-sabota...)

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Sharlin1y ago· 2 in thread

> As mentioned elsewhere, there are between 100-200 cable breakages annually

World wide. A bit different from Baltic Sea only.

digganOP1y ago

Sure, but if 100-200 happens globally, at least one of those are likely to have been in the Baltic Sea.

Sharlin1y ago

I meant to comment that I doubt the Baltic Sea sees on the order of 1% of world's total shipping tonnage, but actually it seems that is roughly the correct figure.

The Bornholm Cable seems to have been cut several times in the 2000s, but I can't find anything about any other breakages before 2022.

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