Finland Discovers Anchor Traces Near Damaged Cable

The trace is tens of kilometers long.

Investigators from Finland have discovered a multi-kilometer trace on the bottom of the Baltic Sea, where the Estlink 2 power cable was previously damaged. Presumably, it was left by an anchor. This is reported by Bloomberg.

“The length of this trace is tens of kilometers,” the agency quotes the head of the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation, Sami Paila. It has not yet been possible to establish where exactly the anchor was lowered, which has still not been found. “The trace ends where the ship raised the anchor chain, and from this place to the east [the trace] stretches for several dozen, if not almost a hundred kilometers,” a representative of the Finnish investigation said in an interview with Yle.

Earlier, the media published a photo of the tanker Eagle S, detained by Finnish coastal services on suspicion of damaging the cable. They show that the tanker does not have an anchor on the left side, although it is present in earlier photos of the same vessel.

The police are investigating a case of vandalism at an underwater infrastructure facility. Repairs to the Estlink 2 power cable will take seven months, costing tens of millions of euros.

Finland detained the oil tanker Eagle C, which flies the flag of the Cook Islands, after a malfunction occurred in the Estlink 2 power cable connecting Estonia and Finland in the Baltic Sea on December 25. Finnish border services escorted the vessel to the coast of Porkkala.

The tanker is associated with the so-called shadow fleet of Russia, which is used to transport Russian oil in circumvention of international sanctions.

According to the Marinetraffic maritime traffic monitoring service, the vessel was transporting oil from Russia to Egypt. It significantly reduced its speed when interference began to be recorded in the cable, Yle reports.

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