This is what happens when you don’t keep your sharks as well fed as our Great Whites around these parts. They eat the internet.
OK, so it was the internet cables that these underwater anarchists took a nibble of, but the effects were pretty full-on. According to thestack.com:
Vietnam’s branch of the Asia-America Gateway (AAG) cable system has today suffered the latest in a series of physical ruptures that have plagued the country over the last year. AAG report that the breakage occurred in the S1H section of the cable, not far from the shores of Ba Ria at the coastal city of Vung Tau.
And the reason for the physical rupture, they quipped:
AAG’s trans-Pacific enemy is thought by some to be the dangerous but fairly apolitical shark, attracted by the electromagnetic field that the cable generates…
Check out the above video taken from Gawker to watch the cable predator in action.
