Finnish investigators find anchor drag mark on the Baltic seabed following cable damage Finnish investigators probing the damage to a Baltic Sea power cable and several data cables said they found an anchor drag mark on the seabed, apparently from a Russia-linked vessel that has already been seized for investigation.
Finnish police chief investigator, Sami Paila, said late Sunday the trail dragged for “dozens of kilometers (miles) ... if not almost a hundred kilometers (62 miles).”.
“I can say that we have a preliminary understanding of what happened at sea, how the anchor mark was created there,” Paila said, without providing further details.
He also stressed that the “question of intent is a completely essential issue to be clarified in the preliminary investigation, and it will be clarified as the investigation progresses.”.
The Estlink-2 power cable, which transmits energy from Finland to Estonia across the Baltic Sea, went down on Dec. 25 after an evident rupture.
