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Originally Posted by RSF

Hi all,
As I understood it, the US-Navy has an operational-sub designed to locate, slice&dice -fibreoptic-cable laying -on or buried-in-the-sea-floor.
Remember a couple of years ago re-"shark"-attacks on five-different-mideastern-fibreoptic-Internet-cables-on-the-sea-floor?
RSF

That is about 9 months ago.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/...ternet.outage/

updated 6:18 p.m. EST, Fri February 1, 2008

Third undersea Internet cable cut in Mideast

* Repairs to one Mediterranean cable expected by February 12
* Cable reported cut Friday off Dubai in Persian Gulf
* Extensive Internet failure has affected much of Asia, the Middle East, north Africa
* Analysts say no chance of similar Internet loss in United States

(CNN) -- An undersea cable carrying Internet traffic was cut off the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai, officials said Friday, the third loss of a line carrying Internet and telephone traffic in three days.
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Dubai has been hit hard by an Internet outage apparently caused by a cut undersea cable.

Ships have been dispatched to repair two undersea cables damaged on Wednesday off Egypt.