The mystery surrounding two severed Baltic subsea internet cables is getting murkier

Share A massive Chinese cargo ship suspected of intentionally severing a pair of fiber optic cables in the Baltic Sea has left the area amid an ongoing international investigation. Cables like these, which are the veins connecting the global internet, have been at the center of suspicious maritime activity in recent years that has resulted in an uptick of outages. In this case, the ship had remained motionless in the Kattegat strait between Sweden and Denmark for months as investigators from multiple countries boarded it to search for clues. That…

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