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Anchor of Rubymar behind sea cable damages in Bad el-Mandeb Strait

The anchor of the 'Rubymar', which was hit on Feb 18 by two anti-ship missiles fired by the Houthis, and drifted for a distance of around 30 nautical miles, before sinking on March 2, scraped over the sea bed and damaged three sea cables - the 15,000 kilometer Seacom/Tata cable which runs through East Africa and also connects it to India; the Asia Africa Europe-1 (AAE-1), which winds 25,000 kilometers and connects Europe to East Asia; and the Europe India Gateway (EIG), 15,000 kilometers long and linking India to the United Kingdom. The three submarine cables are located in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which separates Africa from the Arabian Peninsula between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, and the damage caused problems of internet, both in East Africa and in Vietnam.

No immediate ecological danger from wreck expected

The sinking of the 'Rubymar' south of the Hanish Islands, a Yemeni archipelago in the southern Red Sea, was posing "no immediate danger", Christophe Logette, the director of the France-based accidental water pollution management centre Cedre, said on March 8: "At this stage there is no immediate danger. The ship is on the seabed, the hull is in relatively good shape." The main concern was the fate of the thousands of tonnes of fertiliser. But so far they were in their storage compartment and there was no trace at the moment of this product being released into the sea. There had been no leak from the tanks containing around 200 tonnes of propulsion fuel and 80 tonnes of diesel either. The fear was that if any of the fertiliser were to seep out, it would dump a huge amount of nitrate into the water, causing massive algae blooms which would choke marine life. But water has probably filtered into the hull and the cargo. The fertiliser will be wet and so will dissolve very slowly in very low concentrations, with a restricted effect on the marine environment. Report with photo: https://menafn.com/1107959764/Expert-Says-No-Immediate-Danger-From-Sunken-Ship-Off-Yemen

Dragging anchor thought to have severed subsea cable

According to the US, the anchor of the “Rubymar”, dragging on the bottom, probably severed a subsea cable that enables Internet and telecommunications services worldwide. According to current estimates, the damage caused to the cable running under the Red Sea was a result of the attack, the Defense Department in Washington said on March 7. The attack had forced the crew to anchor on Feb 18. Report with video: https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/video/watch-rubymar-ship-sinks-red-081900799.html