Baltic Sea cables probe uncovers drag track on seafloor
The Peninsula
Helsinki: A probe of the sabotaged Baltic Sea power cable has uncovered a drag trail stretching dozens of kilometres on the seabed, Finnish police sai...
Helsinki: A probe of the sabotaged Baltic Sea power cable has uncovered a drag trail stretching dozens of kilometres on the seabed, Finnish police said on Sunday.
On Christmas Day, the Estlink 2 submarine cable that carries electricity from Finland to Estonia was disconnected from the grid, just over a month after two telecommunications cables were severed in Swedish territorial waters in the Baltic.
Finnish authorities have been investigating the Eagle S oil tanker that sailed from a Russian port over suspected "sabotage".
The investigation has revealed a "dragging track" on the seabed, police said on Sunday, adding the trail had been identified "from the beginning to the end".
"The track is dozens of kilometres in length", Detective Chief Inspector Sami Paila from Finland's National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) said in a press release.
