Did the Houthis Cut Internet Cables in the Red Sea?
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- Опубликовано: 6 мар 2024
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It looks like the Houthis might have added another tactic to their attempts to disrupt global commerce. They were recently accused of cutting four underwater internet cables in the Red Sea. But even if they wanted to, do they have the ability to carry out that sort of sabotage?
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is that your car in the ad? if so please give it to me
I imagine that is his apartment as well, and a pretty close representation of what people once used to communicate.
what?@@mathewkelly9968
Love the AC/DC t-shirt!
Ward, Yemeni targeting is not high tech. It's Yemen. The Saudis have been carpet bombing shia communities in Yemen for 10 yrs. That ship was bound for a Saudi port aka supplying a regime responsible for 100k civilian casualties and about 1M more due to malnutrition. Sucks that civilian shipping is paying the price, but why don't you try sending strategic quantities of industrial goods into yemen in open defiance of US sanctions and see what happens to you (hint it may even get kinetic). The shia of the region are sick of this sh-t. As a completely uninvolved US patriot, I get it... this isnt our fight. Seriously man, what would you do to the people helping your enemies systematically destroy your people religion and entire culture? Yemen isn't so big that 1M people having their lives turned upside down is going to go unnoticed by the majority of the population. Saudis wrecked the county with Israeli and US targeting intelligence and armaments. They have ZERO sympathy for anyone facilitating this deliberate systematic and DECADES LONG campaign. Not everything is about Isreal and Palestine. The neocons unrestraind irresponsible and foolish use of hard power on a global scale literally DESTROYED the US maratime economic empire. It was ENTIRELY PREDICTABLE, and was predicted by normal people as early as the 1970s but the morons who survived the Vietnam era stupidity and wriggled their way back to power post cold War broke humpty dumtpy (you know who they are: the kagans, nuland, helms, Iran contra flotsam, the admirals caught red handed on the take, etc.)
We went from being a country that got the SR71 from concept and drawings to flying in about 6yrs and did have blue on a similar schedule to numbering fighters by roughly the number of years it takes to develop and integrate them into the services... looking at you Mr 22 and FatAmy35 (that's her dating profile name... she froze her eggs so it's all good).
I used to work for a major Canadian telecomm company before I retired. One of my customers ( a news/entertainment company) lost connection to their cable near an island in the Juan de Fuca strait, south east end. I was constantly on the phone with them, giving updates as we got them. It was the worst season for this to happen and they got the cable up and and had to drop it again because of bad weather several times. It took well over a month before they got it spliced. Now add in the complication of people shooting at you. Any cable repair ship will be a most valuable target for the Houthis.
Hopefully they don't target cell phone repair stores. Those things are everywhere!~
They are rare enough and valuable enough ships that they won't go near that area until it is 100% safe.
@@michaelm54877not in the US😢
Well they won’t have to worry about rain
Well, Canadian major telecom companies are not that great it seems.
The best real world news source out there! Great work, as always, Mooch!
No They think the cables were damaged by the MV Rubymar dragging its single dropped anchor on the bottom. There are 4 undersea cables where this ship eventually sank.
new theory: the cables may have been damaged by the ukranian sailboat that blew up Nordstream II. the ukranians were in so much 'panic' that they may have dragged their anchor over the cable (we all know that US/UK forces blew up Nordstream II)
@@JK-dv3qe cool story
@@JK-dv3qe Geography isn't your thing is it Ivan?
@@Davey-BoydIt's just a theory.
@@JK-dv3qeyou are not exactly good at low key are you my Russian simp?
Excellent Briefing Ward!
It's Juan Browne! Runs the best aviation channel on youtube!
Hey there he is!
*Keep a VERY sharp lookout for a Donkey cart fitted with a plough and a truly enormous snorkel*
They have sophisticated weaponry from Iran. They are supported by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, who do have the capability to damage the cables.
Underestimate the Houthis at your own peril.
You in the camp of "they wouldn't be able to do that?" It's a big world. Highly trained high-risk divers are for hire worldwide - for both good & bad tasks.
Poorly trained divers don't last long enough to do much harm, but they still try. 🛁😂
Want to take a🪓 at it?
Big 💴💵💶💷 involved!
@@percyfaith11...You just tried to talk sense to a babboon.
They'd love to do stand-up, but have the bad habit of throwing their feces at their audience.
@@percyfaith11...Did you take note of their screen name before you started typing?
Donkeys are smart, have a loooooong memory, are curious about things, and are well documented as able to learn; the Egyptians pioneered submersible carts and chariots several thousand years back; so, yeah, that is a possibility.
Chinese ships have been passing through the area without hindrance. Remember, it was a chinese ship that recently cut the fiber optic cable between Scandanavia and Estonia...
Mainstream Western media lies. What did they tell you about Nordstream?
I just click on your comment, you are now a communism associate. Are you out of your mind or out of touch
Ward, check out giawou6615's comment. Is this a classic way that our adversary's attack our social media? I find this response very interesting and the reality, troubling. He also appears to be a non english speaking responder, to me. If Chinese are tranisiting freely as a result, friendofcoal's intuition is quite an extrodinary leap and worth acknowledging.
The RubyMar is the most likely cause. As she drifted north in the Red Sea before sinking, she reportedly had an anchor out and dragging. could easily have snagged a cable.
And who caused the fooking thing to be disabled and adrift?
A girl scout troop?
@@Manco65
Who caused it is the US' defence of the genocide instead of stopping it as it is obliged to do.
@@Manco65 Cutie Mark Crusaders left the chat.
XD
I assume the cable(s) weren’t buried. Might be worth the investment to do so next time. It can be done, even if the depth is too deep for a sled. Cost / benefit analysis dependent, of course.
Not sure why the captain would drop anchor in an area where he has been advised not to do so because of cables. Poor thought process probably due to panic from being damaged by the missile that exploded near them.
Anchor depth cables are typically buried by post lay trenching to prevent damage from trawls and anchors. This was wanton destruction requiring serious vessels.
I designed equipment to post lay trench telecom cable 20 years ago.
Twas Merica
I will say... didn't Rubymar just drag its anchor ALL over the area???????????
after being attacked by the Houthis
@@mbpaintballa & what caused the Houthis to attack? Could it be the ongoing "djenoside" in Gaza that they have said on multiple interviews? And that if 1sr4el stops it's attack and lifts the blockade it will stop targeting the shipping route?
@@seekadv8066 what a djenoside? the Houthis don't have the right to attack international shipping. Plus why would israel allow war materials into gaza? they picked a fight with Israel, and now they are paying the price for continuing their attempted Genocide of the jews.
@@seekadv8066 um... not really anything to do with my question.
@@seekadv8066 Learn what genocide is. It's not what Israel is doing, and it is what Hamas is attempting to do to Israeli Jews.
Dragging anchor I’m willing to bet, same thing happens in the North Atlantic with drag net fishing, trawlers are always pulling up old unused phone and internet cables and sometimes active service ones
The RubyMar was confirmed to have been dragging one anchor.
Excellent comprehensive report! Good job, Commander Carroll!
PS ) Loved your post with Rick Beato, and then Juan Browne called in! My worlds collided!! Thanks!
I am still amazed at how this rag-tag military continues to poke the dragon successfully. Even more amazing considering the amount of assets that we (and possibly NATO) have in the area.
I had a VW Scirocco too back in the day...brown metallic...awesome car
Me too. While stationed at Oceana, I bought a '80, Mars red Scirocco 'S'. Loved that car!
@@johnhenderson3646 mine was a '79..oversize BF Goodrich white letter radial TA's and a Blaupunkt sound system....those were the days
My CEO had a Scirocco in the late 80s. They had really tough windscreens.
His wife told me Ron was heading along the motorway at, well let's settle for 'not less than' the 70 mph limit.
A plank fell of a scaffolder's lorry some way in front. bounced on one end, flipped horizontal and hit the centre of Ron's screen. *It cracked the glass but didn't go through*
[I politely avoided asking what happened to the upholstery on the driver's seat]
@@Bummy425 Nice! I had bone stock tires but added a sunroof and an Alpine deck and EQ! It was my understanding that the factory seats were actually manufactured by Recaro.
I had a 79 white just like his photo. Loved that car
"When you control information, you control thought" ~ George Carlin
*WHERE did Carlin GET that information* ?
@@babboon5764 An "X-Files" level question. lol
Why not berry the cables as we did in the North Sea in the 70/80's with the beginning of the gas/oil boom to this day.
It costs slightly more but will hide the cables usually approx 1 meter (3 feet) or deeper.
By using çompressed air with a cradle with horizontal pipes with holes in them, this will let the cables or pipes sink into the sandy sea bed.
Where the bed is rockey, cover them with rocks.
This will also protect them from accidental or diliberat, dragging of an anchor, fishing nets, etc.
That's pretty cool. But given it's traffic and shallowness, esspecailly around the straight, wouldn't they already do that?
As always, an educational and well researched and presented video from Ward Carol. Thank you, Mooch, for keeping us informed. I really thought that these cables would be larger and better protected than they are. I learned something new from this.
Good reporting! Thank You!
Thanks for the update that I can’t receive anywhere else. The Rick Beato of military/aviation/USN News! You rock Ward
Excellent report, Ward. I hope other viewers appreciate the research and editing required for a sub-12 minute video like this one.
Quantity has a quality all its own.
The houthi were eventually bound to get one through do do significant damage, especially when we are killing arrows instead of archers.
Huawei is definitely a Chinese information/technology/communications risk anywhere they have network equipment!
I'm just so glad they didn't get the 5G contracts in Germany that they wanted so badly. Huawei, auwei! (roughly translates to "Huawei, Geez!")
And I keep recommending people not to get a Pico 4 from Bytedance, the TikTok company with lots of influence from the CCP.
@@CakePrincessCelestia They got banned from Indian 5G networks as well, along with ZTE.
It's not a RUclips video. It's a briefing 🙂
You ad story reminds me of the Ensign Mobiles parked around the hangar in the 70s. Green MGs from Pensacola with tiny luggage racks on the boot. One winter usually cured the fondness for the soft top convertibles.
This is the best reporting I have ever seen and literally all it takes is pure facts. Thank you sir, I could not subscribe fast enough.
Thanks for the update, Ward. Your 'big picture overview' is really valuable.
Commander, brilliant briefings are "business as usual" for you! Well done!
Thanks for the update Commander, I fear this situation will get worse before it gets better. Semper Fi Carry On.
Ward, thanks for the thorough review of the situation in the Red Sea vis-a-vis underwater cables.
Love the Scirocco! My first real car was a 85 Scirocco and and I followed it up with a 88 16V . Been a VW guy ever since!
Must be a fan of Jason Camissa 😂
Thanks Ward. Another great episode. Timely & Very Informative as always!
Excellent update. Thanks for the info.
1980 VW Sirocco S.
My first car was a new 1978 one.
What a fun toy car.
I have perilli PO's filling the wheel wells.
Good info WC, thanks for the update sir.
Great research about under sea cables. Thank you for the informative report.
This kind of information is incredibly useful and comprehensive. Thank you.
Thanks for the update
Thanks Ward. Appreciate the update.
Excellent report, thanks Ward.
Another excellent update!
I remember My Dad and I sitting at the Aqualand Marina base of Rt 301 Bridge to Va when At&T laid the 1st Fiber Optic Cable across the River...The cable Ran from Maine To FLORIDA ..the Channel was more of a challenge and required them to bring in a Dozer the Biggest they could find in Charles County to finish pulling the Cable Plow up and ashore..you can tell where cables are as the placed large Blue stone jetty out from shore to protect cable..Keep On Keepin On
Dam Ward that was a lot of information! What an eye opener!
When do they get to the “find out” part?
I think this year or next. Shit's getting way, way too hot; in way too many places. Humans will be the final link of evolution. Sad.
Thanks for the good intel sir! Keep in coming.
There has been several cases of supposedly accidental cuts of internet cables by chinese fishermen in the english channel and medditeranean sea :
One of their boats, supposedly fishing in international water, gets above the cable, declares an emergency and drops the anchor, and then OOPS ? The cable was cut ? That was an accident. It's not groundless rumors as the (at the time) Chef d'Etat Major de la Marine Nationale (5 star admiral, supreme chief of the French Navy) declared the facts in a conference about the issues of the sea.
Your map at 3:24 is crazy to me at first glance.
Imagine water being land and land being water throughout the earth.
Amazing commentary ❤thank you.
Thanks Ward! This is very helpful in understanding the way the whole thing went down. I often wondered how big they were too, seems like it's possible that the could have done it. Wasn't sure on the timing with the Rubymar but it make sense. Thank you for keeping us in the know!
Houthis Cut my homework
Anchor snag
Another clear and concise report ,thanks Ward .
This should be on the nightly news as it is important information to all.
Which is exactly why it isn't.. Don't scare the peasants.
@@user-js4zx1lr2uCorrect. Only the elite matter. Us "littles" only exist to increase the power and wealth of our owners.
Thanks. Very informative Ward.
Newland cut the Pipeline and now she's stepping down 🤬
Brilliant!
Good briefing. I learned a lot. Shocking how vulnerable these systems are.
Well done Ward. Very informative. TNX.
Excellent work. Thanks!
Wow, i had no idea the undersea comm-cables were being targeted. As always, phenomenal coverage, Mr. Carroll * * *
Hoopties!!! Man! I jiust realise Hoovies Garage was so dangerouzzz
Two additional GREAT sources of info on undersea data cables: "Mother Earth Motherboard" , Wired magazine. by Neal Stephenson "The Victorian Internet", by Tom Standage
Thanks, Ward.
Excellent stuff Ward. Your current events analysis, insider guests etc. are so good. And the Rick video/connection is surreptitious - I saw his show in Stockholm.
How do I send more $ - 15 just isn't enough.
Oh my goodness! Your Pensacola apartment you show at 2:01 looks just like my son’s first apartment for NIFE training! His was on Scenic Hwy.
My son is no longer there. He moved to Milton for Primary to be closer to Whiting Field.
He just got selected for jets a couple weeks ago and is heading to NAS Meridian next.
Would be so cool if you two started off in the same place.
Love that you explained the global cable system - I did not know;)
To everyone commenting that it was likely the Rubymar: if the Rubymar was sunk because of Houthi missile strikes, are the Houthis not still responsible for the cable being cut? Sure they didnt directly do it but it being cut would still be a direct result of the Houthis' actions in the Red Sea.
And who is responsible for the Houthi's strikes? The US could stop their attacks anytime they wanted to, they just don't want to.
@@murraymadness4674 lol, and how is that exactly? Can you provide any examples in history where appeasement worked? Because I can think of a few examples where it didn't, not least of which was the H-man in the late 1930s.
@@treyaldridge1757the siege of Gaza and gcide of Palestinians are the reason there is a naval blockade to begin with. The US chose to escalate which caused US and UK ships to become targets. If it was the ship’s anchor then it was the ship’s anchor.
@@sorcesscores5366 a. Doesn't constitute a genocide when compared to other ongoing genocide. War sucks, civilians die, but this isn't genocide. b. That is the Houthis stated reason, they also claim to only be shooting at Israeli shipping and that's a blatant lie, so why should we believe them? C. The US did not escalate, Hamas committed a terror attack that involved US citizens, and when the US rightfully responded, the Houthis began indiscriminately firing at ships in international waters. So we didn't escalate shit.
Get your Houthi cope out of here, they are terrorists disrupting billions of dollars in trade just for the hell of it, nothing they are doing in any way supports or helps Palestinians. In fact it hurts them as it makes aid harder to get into the region.
@@treyaldridge1757 again, you unilaterally deciding who is to blame is counterproductive. if it was the ship’s anchor then it was the ship’s anchor.
Ok, a subject I know about - very well explained!! Even covering fibre hacking.
Great report, more information here than anywhere else. I'm having trouble with the timeline. When were the cable cut, and when was the RubyMar and started drifting with the anchor dragging?
Well done!
I wonder if this is a longer term play by iran to bait one of the expensive and rare cable laying ships into the red sea and within range of houthi missiles
Rubymar most likely picked up the cable while dragging its anchor.
Thank you Sir...
Excellent. Thank you.
Nice video Mr Carroll. I always though the cables were of greater diameter. thank you.
Well, hell bells, we are afraid, they are not...... that is a big difference, and until we recognize this, we will continue to navel-gaze!
Too stoopid to be afraid...
When the UN is feeding you sure what do you have to lose?
@@rolandthethompsongunner64So you want to starve more civilians to force the surrender of a group you are having trouble targeting. How effective has that ever been? Look at Gaza today.
I had an '80 Scirocco, white!
Loved that car.
Thanks sir. "Just the facts", never was better.
The best news is right here. Thanks, Mooch.
Educational Ward, thx.
Thanks Ward.
Geez...maybe you should have opened with the Ruby Mar anchor dragging...?
Thx Ward.
17 hours? I can only imagine the voltage needed for that giant resistor under the sea.
Thanks Mooch!
+wardcarroll *Thanks for the heads up on a sinking.* A freighter probably dragged anchor, cutting the cables before the sunk.
From other channels it seems more likely that rubymar cut the cable with a dragging anchor while she was drifting. Sounds most plausible, but who knows?
Thank you
Thank you.
Thanks!
thank you
Internet went down last night here in Goa India,came back online after about 1 hour!
Thanks Mooch.
The deep sea is a batlefiel, first the pipeline now this. Hopefully it is just a coincidence that the wreck cut the line. Great presentation! All the best :)
Well that’s one I didn’t have on my threat list, packet radio here I come.
6:20 The last paragraph of Buchanan's reply: they did; someone just forgot to tell the saracens!
Excellent coverage! Bravo Zulu.
I was in Kuwaitistan from 08-09 and we had a Rd Sea cable get cut there as well. IIRC, it was out for 2-3 weeks. I got the impression that cable cuts in that region were problematic.
this incident took place 2 -3 weeks ago.. especially the cable cut
Scirocco? I had one too!
First rate work. Even if the video were the product of a research team, instead of just Ward, in my humble opinion, the content is phenomenal. As usual, the delivery succinct, for all the benefits therein.
Ward's videos are indeed high quality, but this one had one error: photos at 0:18 and 0:21 and the warships Ward is calling "Op Prosperity Guardian warships" are all Indian Navy. Ward mistakenly believes India has deployed forces under this American-led operation. Indian foreign policy is clear on this: Indian forces can't be deployed internationally at the beck and call of any foreign nation. Indian warships, MPA, drones, etc are present there due to India's commitment to UN CLOSS. UN is the only super-national body under whose command India will place its forces. That is a core Indian foreign policy tenet. India has been uncompromising on this since Independence.