Abandoned Ship´s Anchor Cut Internet Cable – Really?

We have now been told that a ship´s Anchor was responsible for cutting the internet cable 35 miles north of Dubai (in the Persian Gulf), as suggested from the very first day. So all those "Conspiracy Theorists" can now relax, knowing that there was a perfectly normal explanation all along, right?

But, wait a minute......what happened to the other three cables, how did they get cut?

Isn´t it odd how the authorities (and the MSM) always seem to find some "simple excuse" for explaining away something very unusual? Why shouldn´t people be suspicious when so many cables go down in such a short period of time, and there is no obvious cause available to explain it? Are we supposed to simply accept that it has occurred and ask no questions? What if Sir Isaac Newton had taken that attitude when he saw that apple fall, can you imagine the gravity of his reaction if he had said "´Tis normal"?

We are also told that the anchor was "abandoned" (not attached to a ship) and weighed almost 6 tons, yet somehow it drifted across the cable like a piece of seaweed! But to "prove" to those "conspiracy theorists" that an anchor did indeed exist, we have a photo of one (on a CNN report) being pulled out of the sea. Can you imagine how many abandoned anchors there must be at the bottom of the sea, why bother only removing this one?

In addition to the "anchor" explanation, we were also told (on the first day) that the damage could be the result of bad weather or an earthquake. If a company uses a cable that can not withstand the usual conditions you would expect to find in the sea, they are in the wrong business. As for earthquakes, only three were recorded (approximately magnitude 4) in that area at the time. One was in the Persian Gulf, and the other two near Turkey and Greece.

Unfortunately, no reason has been offered for the other cut cables yet, but to buy some time and distract our attention, we have to listen to people like Stephan Beckert, an analyst with TeleGeography, telling us what it is not, and making fun of the "conspiracy theorists" at the same time. But it was interesting to hear one of his comments, he said "Fundamentally, if somebody wants to cut a cable, they can do so -- all you need to do is go trawling with an anchor". Note that he said "trawling" with an anchor, not using an "abandoned" anchor, which seems to suggest that it needs to be dragged across a cable to break it!

Beckert scoffed at conspiracy theories posted online by what he calls "the tin-foil hat crowd." And although I have not seen too many suggest that Islamic terrorists might have been involved, he responded to his own suggestion by saying "It was a six-ton anchor that took out that cable in the Persian Gulf. Unless al Qaeda has extremely strong frogmen or submarines, I'm not sure how they did it" (this was followed by a laugh).

Perhaps Beckert has a new career waiting for him in the future as a comedian (or maybe a White House spokesman)? But with so many making the same old tired jokes, he may find it difficult to get work. You may also be interested to know Stephan, that the "tin-foil hat crowd" is usually a term reserved for UFO related stories. Maybe he will tell us later that the other cables were cut by a weather balloon?

What of course we don´t hear too much about, and can not be classed as a "conspiracy" or turned into a joke, is the fact that "large scale long-term deep-water observatories" do exist. If you do a search on Google for "Project Neptune" you will see what I mean. This is a "US/Canada initiative" and "It will deploy a network of instruments linked by optical fibres and a power grid on the Juan de Fuca (tectonic) plate off the coasts of British Columbia, Oregon and Washington."

Whilst the project in the NE Pacific Ocean (which has achieved stage one) appears to have no sinister objectives, it clearly shows that the technology exists to create undersea stations that can do more than study the fishes! I understand that some of those connected with this project (Neptune) are involved in something very new (and secretive), and that the US military are part of this. Naturally, this will also be called a "conspiracy theory" and you will be advised to put on your "tin-foil" hats. Perhaps, if you have the time to do some "trawling" in the Middle East, you may actually catch more than an abandoned anchor!