Sweden Probe Into Broken Cable Advances as Seabed Study Winds Up
Yi Peng 3 is anchored and monitored by naval patrol vessels in the sea of Kattegat, near in Jutland, Denmark, on Nov. 20.
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Sweden’s Navy completed a survey of the seabed near one of the damaged data cables in the Baltic Sea as the Nordic country investigates potential sabotage against the underwater infrastructure.
A high-speed fiber optic cable connecting Finland and Germany was cut early Monday by what was likely an external impact and a nearby link between Lithuania and Sweden was damaged on Sunday. The incidents are being probed by Swedish police as possible sabotage, and are the second such event in the Baltic Sea in just over a year.