A sinking ship's anchor severs Red Sea cables

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The bulk carrier Rubymar, struck by Houthi missiles on 18 February 2024 and drifting before it sank, is generally assessed to have dragged its anchor across the seabed and damaged several cables in the southern Red Sea; the systems reported affected were SEACOM, AAE-1, EIG and TGN. Regional traffic between Asia, the Gulf and Europe was disrupted, and repair was complicated by the security situation and by the permissions required to work in those waters. The general manager of the ICPC noted publicly that a dragged anchor is among the leading causes of cable damage — which is the point: the mechanism was entirely ordinary, and only the reason the anchor was down was not.

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