From: Rod Beck (no email)
Date: Thu Jan 31 2008 - 08:04:31 EST
Well, take a look at this map and tell me how many TransAtlantic landing stations are within several kilometers of each other.
Look at how the TransAtlantic cables converge to landing points (except for Hibernia).
http://www.kisca.org.uk/Web_SWApproaches.pdf
These maps are used by UK and Irish fishing boats to avoid the undersea cables.
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-----Original Message-----
From: on behalf of Alexander Harrowell
Sent: Thu 1/31/2008 10:48 AM
To: Hank Nussbacher
Cc: Sean Donelan;
Subject: Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Hank Nussbacher <>
wrote:
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> I think more interesting is the landing stations where numerous cables
> intersect. They may be diverse in the water, but they cluster around each
> other when they hit the landing stations.
Exactly; which have historically been in the same strategic locations. Suez,
Singapore, Cape Town; it's the strategic map of the British Empire. "Five
strategic keys lock up the world", as Lord Fisher said. (Dover, Gibraltar,
Singapore, Cape Town, and Suez).
The similarity is truly uncanny.
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