The Cable Damage Committee is established

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1. Story
2. Cable owners formed a standing committee to share information on how cables were being damaged and to co-ordinate protective practice with the fishing and shipping industries. It was renamed the International Cable Protection Committee in 1967. The founding purpose has not changed: the great majority of cable faults are caused not by the sea but by other people's ordinary work on it, and the only available remedies are charts, communication and convention.
3. Knowledge
4. International Cable Protection Committee
5. The Cable Damage Committee is established
6. Connections
7. International Cable Protection Committee
8. An international advisory body for cable resilience is created
9. The Cable Damage Committee is established
10. A sinking ship's anchor severs Red Sea cables
11. An international advisory body for cable resilience is created
12. Evidence
13. Supports the figures used here for annual cable faults — approximately 150 to 200 worldwide each year, with roughly 70 to 80 per cent caused by accidental human activity, principally fishing gear and ships' anchors, and dragged anchors alone about 30 per cent. V55 verification basis: retrieved search results attributed these figures to the ICPC, but no ICPC page was opened — www.iscpc.org was probed once with WebFetch in this session and returned EGRESS_BLOCKED. The figures are the ICPC's own and are not independently audited.