Undersea power cable linking Finland and Estonia hit by outage, prompting investigation

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Another candidate has also appeared:

According to information from the maritime traffic monitoring service Marinetraffic, the tanker Eagle S had noticeably slowed its speed at the time the cable damage was identified.

Based on monitoring data, a border guard patrol vessel directed the tanker away from the area near the Porkkala Peninsula early in the evening on Christmas Day. By early Thursday morning, both vessels were still in the vicinity of Porkkala.

According to Marinetraffic, the oil tanker was en route from St. Petersburg to Egypt. The British maritime publication Lloyd's List, which covers maritime traffic, reports that the Eagle S is part of Russia's "shadow fleet."

...and another incident has been reported too...

The German data center operator Hetzner also reported early Thursday that there were issues with the network connection between Germany and Finland, Helsingin Sanomat wrote on Thursday.

"There is currently a fault in the main network connection between Frankfurt and Helsinki. This may cause short-term latency issues. We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding," the company stated in a press release.

source: ERR

That particular one is Taiwanese I believe, and passed several minutes before the outage maintaining a constant pace.

Finnish border guard has stopped a tanker registered to Cook Islands that's part of the Russian shadow fleet, which slowed down significantly while crossing the cable and was on site when the outage started.

Time to ban ALL Chinese vessels from the area.

If China can redraw their oceanographic borders, so can Europe.

When his candidate elect causes a recession in the US, triggering a global recession, causing the energy market to retract, affecting his ability to pay his window cleaners, causing him to take a terrible fall out of one when attempting to clean them himself

What should they do?

Do tell us what "proper" handling of Putin would be.

Via a Chinese ship anchor.

I wonder what he gets out of it. I can understand the Kremlin making arson attacks happening in Europe for example, but this? What's the end goal here?

For me it will just awaken the sleepy countries faster.

Usually there's not that much of a reason to sow dissent against Russia, but Ukraine is losing pretty badly and there's not a another nordstream for them to blow up.

I actually hope they do rush - not with conclusions but with diagnostics - just a little.

If it's another spontaneous breakdown (there have been some) then there's plenty of time. If however someone damaged it, then hours = kilometers.

However, this cable has previously had transformer malfunctions, a short circuit at the site of climbing onto ground (ground shifted over years - I hope it hasn't shifted again), but in light of recent power games on the Baltic sea, it would also be a candidate for plowing with anchors.

Timing is pretty annoying. Baltic countries are leaving the old Soviet power grid synchronization area (physically disconnecting from Russia and Belarus and synchronizing with continental Europe) really very soon (in about a month) and nobody here would appreciate power connections being disrupted at this time.