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11 Baltic cables have been damaged in 15 months. What’s going on? - National | Globalnews.ca

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NATO is ratcheting up its guard against suspected attempts to sabotage underwater energy and data cables and pipelines that crisscross the Baltic Sea .

At least 11 cables have been damaged since October 2023 — the most recent being a fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland , reported to have ruptured on Sunday .

97% of the world’s communications, including trillions of dollars of financial transactions, pass through them each day.

In northern European waters, the main causes of damage are commercial fishing or ship anchors, it says.

Sweden detained a Maltese -flagged ship bound for South America with a cargo of fertilizer.

On average, a subsea cable is damaged somewhere in the world every three days , cable owners say.

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