Baltic Sea Underwater Infrastructure Events

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The Baltic Sea is traversed by many means of communication and power distribution and by pipelines.[1] These are vulnerable to incidents which might damage them, in particular involving anchoring. There have been multiple incidents which have caused disruption to undersea infrastructure.

Baltic Sea Underwater Infrastructure Events[2][3][4][5][6]
Date Facility Type Between And Nature of event Suspects Notes
10 October 2004Bornholm Cablepower cableSwedenDenmarksevered[7]possibly Tuc Merkur[8][9]tug and barge with coal to the Avedøre Power Station
January 2010Bornholm Cablepower cableSwedenDenmarkseveredTimberland[8][10]
15 January 2013Bornholm Cablepower cableSwedenDenmarkseverednot named[11]compensation paid[8]
28 February 2022Bornholm Cablepower cableSwedenDenmarkseveredtanker Samus Swan[12]tanker's anchor fouled the cable[8]
26 September 2022Nord Stream 1 & 2gas pipelinesRussiaGermanyexplosionunknownDanish and German investigations
7 October 2023EE-S1fiberoptic communications cableSwedenEstoniapartly severedcargo ships Sevmorput and Newnew Polar Bearinvestigation concluded cable was damaged by external force
8 October 2023Balticconnectorgas pipelineFinlandEstoniaphysicalcontainer ship Newnew Polar BearChinese government later admitted the ship was at fault
18 November 2024BCS East-West Interlinkdata cableSwedenLithuaniaseveredbulk carrier Yi Peng 3investigation ongoing
18 November 2024C-Lion1data cableFinlandGermanyseveredbulk carrier Yi Peng 3investigation ongoing
25 December 2024Estlink 2power cableFinlandEstoniaseveredoil tanker Eagle Sinvestigation ongoing
26 January 2025TV & Radiofiberoptic TV & radio cableSwedenLatviaseveredVezhen or Silver Dania?suspicions of deliberate sabotage later dropped - deemed an accident
26 January 2025 (detected February)C-Lion1 submarine cabletelecommunicationsFinlandGermanydata disturbance?investigation ongoing
31 December 2025Elisa data cabledata cableFinlandEstoniadata disruptionfreighter Fitburg[13]investigation ongoing;
anchor dragged 10s of km

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