http://tasmaniantimes.com/index.php?/weblog/article/likely-cause-of-basslink-failure-is-the-geelong-star/show_comments

Read this and wondered. Could it be the govt gave Geelong Star permission to go anywhere they wanted to without anyone doing any checking and while they were doing that they pulled the plug out of Tas?

You’d think in all that large expanse of water they’d be able to avoid the cable.

Bubblecar said:

You’d think in all that large expanse of water they’d be able to avoid the cable.

Except to go through bass strait you have to travel on an east west axis and the cable is laid on the north south axis.

To be fishing off NSW two days later is possible..

(there is a groovy simulation of the underwater landscape of Tasmania in TMAG. There is a real rush to going through the strait.)

I don’t know. It looks like a cable to me. Yes. I see the damage. I can’t make a guess on what did that.

sarahs mum said:

I don’t know. It looks like a cable to me. Yes. I see the damage. I can’t make a guess on what did that.

I read that article you linked to yesterday. I must admit I looked at that cable image and thought that the damage was caused by an internal fault rather than by an external cause.