Divers sever Internet cable

[arni1954]

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/telecoms/74297-divers-cutting-internet-cable-caught.html

The reason for SEACOM problems ?

 

[The_Unbeliever]

A possibility.

 

[Creag]

Possible.

 

[burn]

Not improbable.

 

[Ecco]

Damn fools. There is always somebody who wants to mess things up for the rest of us.

 

[Compton_effect]

http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=29904
This happens everywhere. Vietnam once told fishermen they could salvage a decommissioned cable and sell it for scrap.
Next thing you know some enterprising soul remembered there were 6 other cables...
$6 Million damage later.

 

[Gordon_R]

This sounds really hard work. Finding the cable (if its properly buried) would be hard enough...

Could it be a new branch of Al Qaida, called Sub Aqua?

 

[BGE]

South African cable thieves have gone international! Another feather in SA's cap! Hehe!

 

[Electron1]

Seems like these thieves want the title "Prince of Darkness"
Wonder what the motive would be? Extortion?

 

[Paul_S]

These guys are doing it for financial gain IMO. Radical groups would do it and then accept responsibility.

I wouldn't put it past some telecoms providers to pay someone to sabotage cables that a competitor relies on.
e.g. Like Telkom organising the sabotage of SEACOM to force competitors to use it's SAT3 cable and thereby also drive customers away from it's competitors (due to poor service) to its own services.

 

[AthenianOwl]

These worthless pieces of **** should be skinned alive and hanged!

 

[Budza]

South African cable thieves have gone international! Another feather in SA's cap! Hehe!

Telkom organising the sabotage of SEACOM to force competitors to use it's SAT3 cable and thereby also drive customers away from it's competitors

That or some religious nutjob that thinks the internet is a bad thing. As you say, they'd probably claim it tho- perhaps they would have had the divers not been caught...

Telkom getting their act together to cut a cable = unlikely. The divers probably would have drowned or run out of air or something.

 

[rph72]

Swines How dare they mess with our interwebz.

 

[siraman]

No ways!!! Hang,draw and quarter them damn bastards!!!!

 

[Recruitsmiths]

Egyptian police are interrogating them currently, BBC newz
We shall know their motives soon.....

 

[durbandave]

Why dont they install the cable at a depth where divers would not be able to reach it without great difficulty?

 

[AnibugZA]

Why dont they install the cable at a depth where divers would not be able to reach it without great difficulty?

Unfortunately the sea has this nasty natural tendency to get shallower as you get closer to the shore.
The cable has to come ashore somewhere...

 

[ciscoyeti]

I hope they hang those bastards, cutting the cable should be an act of war. Classify them as enemy combatants and let them rot in some black site facility until they die.

 

[siraman]

I hope they hang those bastards, cutting the cable should be an act of war. Classify them as enemy combatants and let them rot in some black site facility until they die.

That's harsh..................but i endorse it.

 

[ttygt]

Die Egiptenare sal nou moet draad trek.