Cable cutter nutters chase underwater conspriacies
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Plumbing the depths The failure of four undersea cables in less than a week is stoking suspicions that saboteurs want to disrupt internet traffic passing between Europe and the Middle East. But there's little more than suspicions to work with since no one has yet to even reach the damaged cables.â¦
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Officials in New York complain that New Jersey baymen are going across the state line to dig in New Yorkâs bottom.
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An abandoned anchor was responsible for cutting one of the undersea Internet cables severed last week, causing disruptions across the Middle East and parts of Asia, the cable's owner said Friday.
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Science & environment: A perilous three-way hunt is under way as rival eco-warriors pursue a Japanese fleet
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Cable operators are experimenting with video-on-demand services that get new releases to cable subscribers at the same time they're available in video rental stores.
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Repair work has started on one of  three broken undersea cables providing data services to parts  of the Middle East and Asia, a cable operator said, and a  repair ship was expected to reach a second cable on Tuesday.
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By LEE TOLLIVER,  It's wahoo time.  The offshore waters of Virginia and North Carolina have been teeming with wahoo - long, slender, toothy critters that resemble a barracuda on steroids.
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By Brent Frazee, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Sep. 24--N ORFORK, Ark. -- One fishing boat stood out on Norfork Lake the other day.   Others were clustered in the shallows, where fishermen worked rocky banks and points.
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More than 500 scuba divers and snorkelers listened to a local radio station's four-hour broadcast Saturday, piped in beneath the sea in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
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They call themselves "sub hunters", men and women trained to detect enemy submarines gliding in the depths of the world's oceans.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Marine biologists and U.S. military divers are trying to turn an environmental mess off Fort Lauderdale's coast into an earth-friendly source of fuel.  Their target: an ill-conceived reef of rubber tires sunk into the ocean in the 1970s.
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Coast Guard divers prowl the depths of the St. Johns River and inspect the hulls of cruise ships here. Federal helicopters fitted with crowd-surveillance cameras soar overhead. Hundreds of manholes have been locked down, and thousands of security forces are poised to hit the streets.
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The latest hot homemade video claims that Coast Guard patrol boat security camers have blindspots. But in the YouTube age, viewers should be wary of their own
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With FLAG telecom now reporting damages to the FALCON undersea cable that actually occurred on January 23, one week before the four publicized cable cuts, experts are now beginning to paint a picture of just how expansive the disruptions have been.
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Two underwater cables in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged on Wednesday morning, dragging Internet connections throughout the Middle East and in parts of Asia to a crawl.The cables, one operated by Flag Telecom and the other by a consortium of 15 telecommunications operators, account for 75 percent of the network capacity between Europe and the Middle East, according to Stephan Beckert, an analyst with TeleGeography Research.A third cable was undamaged, but it is older and has far less capacity than the others, he said.Operators believe the damage was caused by ship anchors during a heavy storm at sea, Beckert said. Wire services reported that ships heading for Egypt&#39;s northern coast were diverted due to the storms, and their anchors may have severed the cables several miles from shore.AT&amp;T confirmed that its service to some areas of the Middle East was affected, but said it was now re-routing traffic. Etisalat, the telecommunications provider in the United Arab Emirates, reported that both Internet traffic and international voice calls were affected by the incident. Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India and all of the Gulf states were affected, Beckert said.As much as 70 percent of Egypt&#8217;s Internet network was down, and over half of India&#39;s bandwidth was cut due to the disruption, according to a report from Reuters that cited local officials.Most of the major operators have backup plans in place for this type of incident, Beckert said. In this case, they&#39;ll have to route traffic from the Middle East to Asia, across the Pacific Ocean, through the U.S. and then across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe, he said. That will result in latency problems that will likely lead to sluggish connections until the cables are repaired, he said. The operators in the Middle East told him that they should be able to repair the damages in one to two weeks.The accident should affect mainly Internet traffic. Voice calls travel over the same cables, but operators will give priority to the voice calls, which take up relatively little capacity but produce more revenue than data traffic. Beckert estimates that 1 percent or less of traffic carried on the cables is voice.
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Mysterious deep-sea giants that use their bioluminescent arms to dazzle and catch prey have been filmed for the first time ever in the wild. With videos
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A preliminary investigation links the cuts to a ship's anchor that dragged and ripped into the two fiber optic undersea cables.