Have any of them actually been confirmed to be deliberate actions, or is this your hypothesis? Last time I checked on older incidents, they seem to all have been proper accidents, but I haven't checked on the last ones.
> There have not been this many accidents in such a short timespan, limited to such a small geographical area.
Yeah, ~7 events in the last 12 months (or what it is) does sound like a lot. I'm having a hard time finding some credible source listing all incidents though, so we could compare year-by-year, because I'm sure the news also reports a lot more about it, than before.
Linked from another comment: https://blog.telegeography.com/what-happens-when-submarine-c...
> Cable faults are common. On average, there are over 100 each year. [...] Unintentional damage from fishing vessels and ships dragging anchors account for two-thirds of all cable faults.
100 each year would be one every three days, but of course you don't read about all them in the news.
I'm not saying none of the cable breakages are sabotage, I/we don't know. As far as we know, I don't think we have any cases (with or without confession) where we can be 100% it's intentional, at least yet.
https://blog.telegeography.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2017/submarine-ca...
74% human caused (38% fishing, 25% anchorage, 11% other)
14% environmental (8% natural, 6% abrasion)
12% neither human nor environmental (6% component failure, 6% other)
"Deliberate sabotage and shark bites are exceedingly rare"