Submarine cable incident record
United Kingdom regional cable advisory cable event — 2026-05-11
Subsea cable break disrupts broadband and mobile in part of Orkney, Scotland.
Search indexing is withheld for this snapshot because its retained public sources predate the recorded occurrence window and it has no cross-validated network measurement. The record remains available for traceability, not as a confirmed incident.
Resolved
- Affected cable or system
- Regional advisory; no cable was deterministically attributed
- Affected countries
- United Kingdom
- Region
- North Atlantic and Europe
- Evidence mode
- News and traffic corroboration
- Source extraction confidence
- 95%
- Resolution
- Resolved after traffic recovery
Lifecycle
- Occurred:
- Repair activity reported:
- Resolution date:
Original supporting evidence
- Subsea Cable Break Knocks Out Broadband and Mobile for Part of Orkney UPDATE - ISPreview UK
- Tiree Subsea Cable Repairs Begin After Storm Damage - SubTel Forum
- Tiree Island Suffers Protracted Broadband Outage After Subsea Cable Break - ISPreview UK
- Major internet outage in Scottish island after damage to subsea cable - The National Scot
- Repair ship arrives at site of subsea cable fault to begin work on restoring internet connectivty - Shetland Times
- Fishing vessel believed to have damaged subsea cable - Shetland News
- Subsea cable fault still affecting hundreds of customers in Shetland and Orkney - but less widespread than first thought - Shetland Times
- Subsea cable repairs likely to take until next weekend - Shetland Times
- Connectivity Damage to subsea cable leads to internet outages - Shetland News
Recorded traffic signals
- GB · radar · z=-1.8293915580734779 · 2026-05-11T03:00:00.000Z
- GB · radar · z=-1.8293069776048512 · 2026-05-13T03:00:00.000Z
- GB · radar · z=-1.7924345750230228 · 2026-05-14T03:00:00.000Z
- GB · radar · z=-1.8033435040525414 · 2026-05-21T03:00:00.000Z
Confidence describes automated extraction of the cited source, not a probability that every named cable was physically cut. Historical records may be marked assumed resolved when no newer evidence was available. Confirm operational decisions with the cable owner or carrier.