Maintenance in progress

finnish police seized the cargo vessel fitburg with fourteen crew — russian, georgian, kazakh, azerbaijani — on suspicion of damaging the undersea telecom cable linking helsinki and tallinn. in the same window, taiwan's coast guard warned off a chinese-flagged research ship loitering above the pacific light cable network that joins taiwan, the us and the philippines. two separate seas, same object of interest: the physical strands carrying the internet, approached by vessels whose stated purpose is something else.

nordic and taiwanese maritime authorities