Vocus continues to progress restoration activities following the Australia Singapore Cable (ASC) fault, with marine repair operations having commenced at the ASC fault location.
The repair vessel successfully commenced cable recovery operations, with one end of the damaged cable recovered onboard. During repair operations, a crew member of the repair vessel required urgent medical attention.
Repair activities have been temporarily suspended to allow the vessel to divert to Jakarta, Indonesia, where the injured crew member can receive appropriate medical care.
Prior to departing the repair site, the recovered cable end was secured and buoyed off to enable repair activities to resume upon the vessel’s return. A guard vessel remains in position to protect the secured cable end during this period.
This unplanned interruption is expected to add approximately three to four days to the marine repair program. Vocus is working closely with its marine repair partner to confirm the revised schedule, including the vessel’s expected return to the repair location and the anticipated completion date.
The ASC cable system has been powered down to support the repair activities, with all services previously operating via ASC now offline.
Further updates will be provided as the vessel’s return to the ASC repair site, and the revised completion schedule are confirmed.
Next update: 1800 AEDT on Monday 9 November 2026.
Months feel like they have passed since the fault was announced since then we have been experiencing really poor connection to Asia from here.
Lets all hope it will be fixed soonist.