2022 Anchor-Drag Incident May Have Severed Another Baltic Subsea Cable

After a series of four subsea cable damage incidents involving suspected anchor-dragging in little more than a year, NATO members in the Baltic suspect that Russian “hybrid” sabotage operations could be to blame. But investigators can add at least one more recent incident to the list: in January 2022, a Turkish ship may have dragged anchor under way and severed a subsea power cable in the Kattegat, between Sweden and Denmark. On January 20, 2022, the Konti-Skan 2 cable – a decades-old …