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How One Ship Crashed The Internet For 75 Million People

Started by gcaptain · 11 months ago

Submarine cables world map. Click here for full-size version (Graphic: Telegeography.com)

Sea-Fever’s Peter Mello submitted the following story to our Maritime News Discoverer;
A flotilla of ships may have been dispatched to reinstate the broken submarine cable that has ... Continue reading »

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  • OldSailor

    1 year ago

    Last three days lam finding it difficult to browse and the speed is too low because of this cable damage. This is likely to continue like this for a week or more.
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  • John

    1 year ago

    I'm glad they found a workaround... even if it's slow but this must be hurting the local economy. I know that Google has a project underway to lay a cable from California west that will add redundancy to the systems coming over from Europe but I think the estimates are it will take a decade to finish.
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  • gertbue

    1 year ago

    With Hdyrographic Offices outsourcing chart production to India, this event worries me. While I write these lines, the majority of the worlds digital sea charts for ECDIS is digitized in Hyderabad under contract to NOAA, UKHO, and other European and Asian HOs. What happens next when also maintainance (updating) of charts is mostly out of India? Delayed notices to mariners?
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