Well, it turns out that the world of Internet traffic isnt only affected by retarded ISP engineers and tractors cutting through telephone lines… But now also ships are having fun at doing it too. In recent news, iv caught wind of the loss of the SeaMeWe4 cable and FLAG Europe-Asia, effectively cutting the Internet access of the Continent of Asia by 75%.

Although claimed as an accident, caused by a ships anchor during bad weather, Internet conspiracy nuts are already hot on the heals of this and have been backed up by the Egyptian government who say their were no ships in the area where the cable was severed during the storm, O-Oh, back to the drawing board on that theory then.

Since then, February 4th has the announcement of a further 2 cables being severed around the mediterranean, Communications in the Middle East have been hardest hit by the damage, though India, the United States and Europe also experienced slowdowns. It is still undetermined what has caused the loss of these two original cables and now the Qatar-UAE & Falcon submarine line but most telecommunications experts and cable operators say that sabotage seems unlikely, one thing is for sure though, and thats undersea cables carry about 95 percent of the world’s telephone and Internet traffic so we cant afford to loose many more !

Click here for a world map of the current Submarine Cable network, published by The Guardian after the orginal two cables were lost !