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Why are people blaming Yemen’s Houthis for cutting the Red Sea cables?
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Where are you getting metre thick from? I'm seeing that modern cables tend to be around 1 inch. Maybe these are special cables, but I don't see that. These things get cut by anchors sometimes. I could imagine what it would be like to get snagged on 4 metre thick wires. Some of them aren't even that deep. Some divers tried cutting wires near egypt 10 years ago.
1m is a bit much but thicker cables are apparently used in shallower waters.
Looking more into it that's true. But we are talking about a little under 3 inches instead of 1. I may argue it's maybe more fair to say that 1 inch is a bit small instead of 1 metre being a bit much. A factor of under 3 compared to over 10. It's even more striking when we are talking about diameter and not area. The point is that the advanced technology to do this, is a commercial freight ship with an anchor, not godzilla. That's the tech to do it accidentally, as it sometimes happens.