The Mystery of the Vanishing Undersea Cable

Get unlimited access to bloomberg.com/ for $1.99/month for the first 3 months: www.bloomberg.com/subscriptions?in_source=YoutubeO… A Subsea Cable Went Missing. Was Russia to Blame? Read more: www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-undersea-cable-sab…

Now do a documentary on Nordstream pipeline.

I was a fisherman, no one goes over the same point 140 times😂. They passed over it because they wanted to take it but they weren't capable of it

About 4-days ago, I was thinking, "How do you keep an adversary from destroying undersea communications cables?" A day later this video shows up. This phenomenon happens to me on a weekly to biweekly basis—I think it, YouTube presents it. I know what you are thinking; Google heard me talking about it. In some cases that is possible, but overall it's merely that an odd thought shows up in my brain, and within 3-days YouTube presents me with a video or multiple videos on the subject.

Policeman: "...my jurisdiction is from here, to the North Pole..." Holy moly! lol

Forgive me. A very kind and forgiving documentary. Sprinkled with a bit too much naivety ❤

Short answer: Yes Long answer: Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssss

I worked near a deep sea cable company. They come in different grades and even pressure lines that hold up to 2000 psi fluids. Cost is around $500 or more, a foot to produce. They go for miles. It will be interesting to see how these cables will be able to identify their attackers affordably. My mind is wandering on sensors of any type that warn any approaching vessels, including submarines.

Another fiber optic cable fell from the balcony !

Oh so you guys can figure out how cut internet cables but nord stream is a total mystery

YOu need to hire law enforcement that understand this. This is a typical test. Theya re waiting to see how long it will take for you to notice the problem and fix it. This is preparation for something bigger.

The underwater cables are been cut around Taiwan which kind incident happen very offen and Taiwan government knew Which country did that.

How was it possible that several days went by before the data loss was detected? Wasn't there any automated system monitoring the data feed and alerting people via reliable messages when a fault is detected?

Reminds me the mystery of north stream pipeline blown up...

If they turn off their transponder you won’t know who was there. Bad actors always do this.

Our company designed some older in-water surveillance systems, and now in modern times, ANY optical cable can be used to track underwater pressure waves. The audio bandwidths are somewhat limited by the cable construction, but signatures of capital vessels and high energy events are straightforwardly obtained. Cables without armor coating have the highest bandwidths. Capital countries have tried to intercept each others data flows, for decades, with major successes in many areas. One advantage of optical cables is that is easier to determine if they have been intercepted, but nonetheless it can be done. As per the video commentary, Russia it probably training to see how easy it would be to eliminate tracking of submarines, and disrupt any data flow between adversaries, for tactical and strategic purposes. NATO would be well advised to prepare alternate methods for such detection, and possibly plan for active measures against such sabotage.

Option 5: the undersea cable manufacturer wants to sell more cable. :)

9:32 Another option is that a military vessel spoofed the MMSI used in their AIS transponder to make it appear to be a fishing vessel. Impossible to confirm the vessel identity without other corroborating evidence such as satellite observations, either visual or RF.

I was a submariner in the 70's. We took an interest in Russian trawlers all the time. They had lots of aerials. And didn't seem to do much fishing.

Wasn’t it reported a Chinese cargo ship dragged its anchor. Definitely sabotage.