Underwater Drone Identifies Drag Marks Along Chinese Ship’s Path Over Damaged Baltic Cables

Two underwater telecommunications cables were damaged last month, as the Chinese cargo vessel Yi Peng 3 transited the Baltic Sea.

A view of the anchor of the Chinese ship, the bulk carrier Yi Peng 3, in the sea of Kattegat, near the City of Grenaa in Jutland, Denmark, dated Nov. 20, 2024. Mikkel Berg Pedersen/Ritzau Scanpix/via Reuters

Underwater drone operators have reportedly found drag marks in the Baltic seabed that overlap with the path of a Chinese vessel that transited the waterway as two undersea telecommunications cables were damaged last month.

Blueye Robotics, which partnered with Denmark’s TV2 and Sweden’s TV4 news stations, sent underwater drones into the Kattegat Strait to search for signs of sabotage after cables connecting between Finland and Germany and between Sweden and Lithuania were damaged.