Undersea Infrastructure News Today

welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. the president of the european commission says sabotage was the cause of rare gas leaks in two major pipelines connecting russia and europe. ursula von der leyen warned of the "strongest possible response" if active european energy insfrastructure is attacked. seismologists reported underwater explosions just before the leaks. nordstream 1 is leaking at two points, a day after a similar leak affected its sister...

The National Risk Assessment is an annual release of the potential dangers for Ireland.

The threat to undersea infrastructure, like every other threat just now, is increasing. Only a few weeks ago the Houthis, so adeptly disrupting commercial shipping in the Bab el Mandeb chokepoint, declared that they were going to add undersea disruption to their playbook. They said they would target the submarine cables that run through the Bab el Mandeb between Asia and Europe.

Nord Stream is one thing, but not many nations could do covert underwater intrusion in the Red Sea

Nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines and whisper quiet diesel-electric-powered attack boats make up the backbone of Russia’s modern naval deterrent, providing Moscow with opportunities to challenge potential adversaries’ overall advantages in size and tonnage.

NATO officials have warned Ireland to monitor Russian ships which could damage Ireland's undersea infrastructure

Coordination group, Key Underwater Infrastructure Protection

Its not currently making them money or being valuable, so it could have a different kind of role for the russians. again, we do not know this is what has happened, but there could be reasons why russia might want to demonstrate its power at sabotaging undersea infrastructure. there is a lot of that in europe, and also between our continents. to escalate the conflict, as we had the polish government saying today. or also to detract and deflect attention from the battlefield losses that the russia...

SubOptic Association Launches the SubOptic Foundation The SubOptic Foundation - a newly-formed charitable organization - aims to support a variety of programs designed to promote the sustainability of the fiber optic submarine cable industry and global communications community News provided by Share this article Share this article LONDON, Jan. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The SubOptic Association ("SubOptic"), the industry-led, International, non-profit association dedicated to promoting the devel...