{"id":179627,"date":"2025-02-25T09:13:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T23:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=179627"},"modified":"2025-02-25T09:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T23:16:07","slug":"sweden-is-investigating-a-cable-break-in-the-baltic-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=179627","title":{"rendered":"Sweden is investigating a cable break in the Baltic Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/sweden\">Swedish authorities<\/a>&nbsp;are investigating a damaged cable that was discovered in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/baltic-sea\">the Baltic Sea<\/a>, according to Swedish news agency TT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The breakage is the latest in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/norway-baltic-sweden-latvia-cable-ship-bulgaria-051018edb3b3c8a8a374cbf98f9b6927\">a string of recent incidents of ruptured undersea cables<\/a>&nbsp;that have heightened fears of Russian sabotage and spying in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Late last month, authorities discovered damage to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/latvia-denmark-underwater-cable-damage-investigation-63da5ef0d577bca12bbe118d527d3a14\">undersea fiber-optic cable<\/a>&nbsp;running between the Latvian city of Ventspils and Sweden\u2019s Gotland. A vessel belonging to a Bulgarian shipping company was seized but later released after Swedish prosecutors ruled out&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/latvia-denmark-underwater-cable-damage-investigation-63da5ef0d577bca12bbe118d527d3a14\">initial suspicions<\/a>&nbsp;that sabotage caused the damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most recent break was found off the island of Gotland, south of Stockholm, in the Swedish economic zone, TT reported Friday. The cable runs between&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/germany\">Germany<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/finland\">Finland.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Coast Guard is responding to the site. The agency and prosecutors referred media inquiries to police, which did not immediately respond to The Associated Press&#8217; request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/video\/sweden-uk-norway-officials-react-to-trumps-comments-about-ukraine-starting-the-war-0a20b5c2e6d3433ab2f240388b5aeb3a\">Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson<\/a>&nbsp;said on the social media platform X on Friday that the government takes all reports of damage to infrastructure in the Baltic Sea very seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional details were not immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish authorities are investigating a damaged cable that was discovered in the Baltic Sea, according to Swedish news agency TT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":137453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10419,35,2792,1968,9281],"tags":[7521,15533],"class_list":["post-179627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baltic-sea","category-breaking-news","category-subsea-cable-news","category-sweden","category-telecommunications","tag-europe","tag-subsea-cable-networks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179628,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179627\/revisions\/179628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/137453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}