The Finnish company Cinia, which manages the C-Lion1 cable, reported that in repair work started on Monday and are carried out at a depth of approx 50 meters within territorial waters Sweden – on the eastern side from the southern tip of the island of Öland, halfway along the entire installation between Finland a Germany.
The French unit Cable Vigilance, which left its home port in Calais on Thursday, is responsible for the work. The crew shared photos showing that they were helping to repair the cable remotely controlled underwater crawler rover.
Baltic Sea. Cable break at the bottom of the sea. Suspicious Chinese ship
It is still unknown what happened on Monday, November 18 interruption of the C-Lion1 telecommunications cable. The Finnish website Yle reported that a day earlier, a similar underwater object was damaged at a nearby point Lithuania a Sweden.
Following a request from the National Bureau of Investigation, Helsinki A Finnish coast guard ship sailed to the site of the accident last week collected the necessary evidence in the case.
The findings so far cast a shadow of suspicion Chinese unit Yi Peng 3because it was nearby when the fault occurred. Moreover, the ship's signal was there off from Sunday evening (November 17) to early Monday (November 18).
Cable break in the Baltic Sea. China declares its will to cooperate
The Beijing-flagged vessel is currently moored in international waters in the strait Kattegat barely 100 meters from territorial waters Denmark.
Swedish public television SVT and Danish station DR reported that “several countries” has already conducted diplomatic negotiations with the Middle Kingdom to obtain consent to examining the ship. Last Thursday, Rep MSZ Chin Lin Jian emphasized in an interview with Reuters that there is a state ready to “conduct talks on the safety of underwater infrastructure.
Although Copenhagen assures that negotiations are taking place in… “good spirit”publicly available sea traffic maps show that Yi Peng 3 is circulating over and over again for several days and does not affect any territorial waters to prevent European services from carrying out their activities lawful inspection.
Who broke the cable at the bottom of the Baltic Sea? Russia denies, repairs continue
Experts fear that the ship will eventually be able to bypass territorial waters avoid inspection. This situation occurred in 2023, when a Chinese unit was also suspected of interrupting the gas pipeline. Balticconnector between Finland a Estonia in 2023. Dania so it is in the opinion of some specialists too cautious compared to the Yi Peng unit 3.
There are also suspicions that the cable was interrupted Russiabut The Kremlin denies everything.
Extending from the Finnish ones Helsinki to Rostock in Germany C-Lion1 is approx 1,173 kilometers long and was put into operation in 2016. The purpose of infrastructure is, among other things, to provide better communication and data transmission. Repair works at the bottom of the reservoir should take time until the end of November.