Microsoft Azure: "multiple International Subsea Cables Were Cut in the Red Sea"

An article about people who fix this

Also, the teams are quite busy:

> "There are 150 to 200 instances of damage to the global network each year. So if we look at that against 1.4 million km, that's not very many, and for the most part, when this damage happens, it can be repaired relatively quickly."

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> If a fault is found, a repair ship is dispatched. "All these vessels are strategically placed around the world to be 10-12 days from base to port,"

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> To repair the damage, the ship deploys a grapnel, or grappling hook, to lift and snip the cable, pulling one loose end up to the surface and reeling it in across the bow with large, motorised drums. The damaged section is then winched into an internal room and analysed for a fault, repaired, tested by sending a signal back to land from the boat, sealed and then attached to a buoy while the process is repeated on the other end of the cable.

On land, we’ve call before you dig. I wish they could do something like call before you drop (anchor) training or just get the word out.

And red sea is quite sunny currently (i just checked windy.com now) . There is absolutely no reason that they need to drop it out of nowhere.

Finding both ends of the cable to grab abd raise it took longer than the raise/splice operation.

I suspect a sufficiently malicious attacker could intentionally cut the cable twice, so when the repair crew drag up one end of the cut they know about, the section between the cuts drags its other end away from it's cut-point making the second repair significantly more difficult...