Submarine cable incident record
C-Lion1 — Confirmed — 2026-05-17
German-Finnish submarine cable C-Lion1 reported damaged.
Search indexing is withheld for this snapshot because its retained public sources do not meet the archive's indexing freshness rule. The record remains available for traceability; search-indexing policy does not change its Confirmed or Suspected class.
Confirmed
- Public classification
- Confirmed
- Affected cable or system
- C-Lion1
- Affected countries
- Germany, Finland
- Region
- North Atlantic and Europe
- Network state
- Network recovered; physical repair not confirmed
- Physical state
- Repair in progress confirmed by report
Lifecycle
- Occurred:
- Repair activity reported:
- Network recovered: — this does not confirm physical repair.
Original supporting evidence
Recorded traffic signals
- DE · radar · z=-1.788422792091575 · 2026-05-17T03:00:00.000Z
- FI · radar · z=-2.029874351318979 · 2026-05-14T01:00:00.000Z
- FI · radar · z=-1.9536617932764686 · 2026-05-15T01:00:00.000Z
- FI · radar · z=-1.812068162491099 · 2026-05-17T03:00:00.000Z
Public-network measurements can support a Suspected record but cannot prove a physical cable fault or repair. Network recovery can result from rerouting and does not establish physical repair. Confirm operational decisions with the cable owner or carrier.