Coast Guard Investigates Mysterious Cargo Ship Following Unusual Course

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Taiwan's coast guard says it has investigated a mysterious Mongolia-flagged ship making unusual movements in waters around Taiwan. The coast guard says it didn't discover any equipment that could be used for cutting undersea cables.

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00:00Taiwan's Coast Guard has boarded a Mongolia-flagged cargo ship to investigate its unusual movements.

00:07Members of the public-monitoring open-source website Marine Traffic had pointed out that

00:11the ship was following an unusual route and reported it.

00:15The Coast Guard boarded the vessel off Taiwan's southwest coast but did not discover any suspicious

00:19equipment that could be used to cut undersea cables.

00:23This comes after another Chinese vessel severed an undersea communications cable off northern

00:27Taiwan early this month.

00:29The incident prompted authorities to step up surveillance around submarine cable sites.

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