More undersea shenanigans hit Davy Jones' net locker

6 Feb 2008 | 07:42 GMT

By Wily Ferret

IN A CONTINUING mystery that is baffling boffins across the planet, it now appears that yet another undersea cable serving up the world wide wibble to the eastern hemisphere of this planet we call earth has been, well, cut.

Last week, two of the major undersea pipes that carry internets were severed in what was assumed to be a shipping accident. Then, at the end of last week, a third was damaged. Then a fourth and now, as of this morning, a fifth has been shut down before the first two have even been repaired.

No word on how the latest cable has been busted up, although there is a suggestion that it has failed due to a power outage. We're not quite sure about that one.

Traffic is still getting through, thanks to the huge amount of redundancy built into the packet-routing system the net works on, but we wonder if it isn't time to call in the big guns already. Scooby Doo, where are you? µ

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