a shipThe cablegram vessel Cable Innovator docked successful Port Angeles, Wash. successful May 2022 (Creative Commons/DeVos Max)

A British-flagged cable-laying vessel is sailing from Canada to Southeast Alaska to repair a damaged undersea fibre optic cablegram that has disrupted telecommunications and net successful Sitka since past Thursday.

Alaska telecom patient GCI says nan Cable Innovator stopped astatine Victoria, British Columbia to load materials for nan repair job. It should get by nan extremity of nan week.

GCI has confirmed nary different specifications astir nan incident – neither nan location of nan break nor really it whitethorn person occurred. Information circulating connected societal media successful Sitka astir nan engagement of a cruise vessel is unsubstantiated.

GCI says it cannot beryllium much circumstantial astir nan incident until nan Cable Innovator is connected scene, and repairs are underway.

The Cable Innovator’s advancement to Sitka tin beryllium tracked connected the VesselFinder website.