It is the C-Lion 1 cable, which runs between Helsinki in Finland and Rostock in Germany, that has been smoking, according to the authorities.
This means that all telecommunications that pass through the cable are broken, according to the Finnish network company Cinia, which has built the cable.
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CEO Ari-Jussi Knaapila told a press conference earlier on Monday that the cable break was caused by “external forces”. Knaapila singles out bottom anchoring of ships and emergency anchoring as typical causes of cable breaks. However, what is to blame in this case remains unclear.
A ship has been dispatched to investigate the condition of the broken cable.
Tapio Frantti, professor of cyber security at the University of Jyväskylä, says Howl that he believes the cable break has occurred as a result of a deliberate act.
– When a cable is broken, it leads to questions about why it happened and who might have a motive for doing something like this, says Frantti.
Around 200 submarine cables break every year
Finnish security service Supo says it is too early to determine the cause of the cable break. According to Supo, around 200 submarine cables break each year, and it is often a matter of human error.
Cinia says that repair work has been started. How long this takes is not clear, but similar repairs on submarine cables often take between five and 15 days, writes the newspaper Ilta-Sanomat.
The cable is 1,173 kilometers long and was commissioned in 2016. It runs near the Nord Stream gas pipeline.
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