Internet Outages in UAE

There are Internet outages in the UAE apparently due to seawater seepage into the cable, causing a short out. This doesn't seem to be on the scale of the outages back in '08 when there was a lot of lost linkage when no fewer than three cables got cut, allegedly by dragged anchors, but it seemed odd it all happened at once. This seems mostly limited to the UAE, but any disruption in the Internet in intensely active business and trading centers is, of course, a concern.