> On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Bruce Campbell wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Tony Li wrote: > > > > > Did they arrest the crew? They have grounds on negligence > > > charges... > > > > The crew of the ship for having dropped anchor presumably > in defiance of > > 'Undersea cable, Do not anchor here' signs, or the telco > for having sited > > a critical communications cable near/beneath a busy port ?
Conceivably neither, if... - the cable was in a well-charted cable area (equivalent to "do not dig" easements on land which AFAIK are also present in densely populated/high traffic areas) AND - the ship was dragging anchor because of severe weather forcing it toward shoals or other ships (i.e. safety of ship and crew)