'Shadow fleets' and sabotage: are Europe's undersea cables under attack?

Re:'Shadow fleets' and sabotage: are Europe's undersea cable... by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @08:14AM (#43265994)

Maybe, but the Gulf of Finland alone (where the incidents with the Eagle 2 occurred) is 30.000 square kilometers; the amount of ships (or planes etc) and coverage you need and the associated cost is huge.

I mean putting an officer / escort on board of each ship to make sure they're not doing anything weird would be an option, but I'm fairly sure that's against international law or anything. The issue is also that these are international waters - the Eagle went right through a narrow corridor of international waters - where it's a bit of the wild west.

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Re:'Shadow fleets' and sabotage: are Europe's undersea cable... by Polizeiposaune on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @08:59AM (#43266458)

There's a long-standing requirement at major ports that a local harbor pilot be on board to guide ships on their way in or out of a harbor. Requiring an observer on board when transiting areas with a concentration of critical underwater infrastructure seems at least conceptually similar -- though the logistics of making it happen would be very different.

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