>If Esther has been fixed in that location for decades
It looks like it has, whilst digging I came across this fishing website from 2007 :-
http://www.allkayakfishing.com/forums/showthread.php?t=883
More sub cables ..
Facebook's new hookup: A pair of submarine cables to link North America, Indonesia, Singapore
Facebook has announced that it will build two new subsea cables to connect North America with Indonesia and Singapore. The two cables, named Echo and Bifrost, will be the first transpacific cables through the Java Sea.
Trans-Pacific cables most often take a northern route that sees their Asian landing points located in Japan, South Korea, China or the Philippines. Those that go across the middle of the ocean usually touch Guam, Hawaii or both.
Bifrost will only land in Guam, then head north of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi into the Java Sea and end in Singapore. Echo’s journey starts in Northern California, includes a spur to Guam and a main branch passing south of Sulawesi into the Java Sea and then on to Singapore.
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During the Trump administration, the Department of Justice made recommendations to the US Federal Communications Commission against linking the US to Hong Kong based on national security concerns, thus killing off Facebook’s other attempts to install the subsea cables.
Facebook withdrew the HKA application under the Biden administration, based on “ongoing concerns from the US government about direct communications links between the United States and Hong Kong,” according to a Facebook spokesperson.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/30/facebook_new_submarine_cables/
>loads of cash involved in both the marina work and with that hotel and the redevelopment
Did find this .. http://cdiacdocs.sto.ca.gov/2015-1074.pdf
also - https://www.thelog.com/local/long-beach-approves-125-million-in-bonds-for-alamitos-bay-marina-rebuild/
~$120,000,000 of bonds issued by the marina to finance the rebuild. City has zero liability for the bonds if it all goes awry.
This does "appear" to be reported as legit with a BBB rating in 2020.
https://www.fitchratings.com/research/us-public-finance/fitch-affirms-long-beach-ca-marina-revenue-bonds-at-bbb-outlook-stable-10-01-2020
However there were reservations about it in 2011 - https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/35076598/audit-of-alamitos-bay-marina-rebuild-long-beach-city-auditor
Decision was passed in 2015 7-0
The area we are looking at is not far from the latest mass shooting in the US.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9428077/PICTURED-Suspect-44-shooting-left-four-dead-including-nine-year-old-boy.html
Wonder if it was an RBG on ice type scenario. 1 month exactly from the Prince of Wakes "typo". Wakes as in funeral wake. See >>13316959
Maybe not..
>The Duke was last seen in public on March 16 as he left the private King Edward VII
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2021/04/09/prince-philip-dead-duke-edinburgh-dies-aged-99-what-happened/
I was wondering if it was something added in, here is a much larger image. It is there on other images, its a reflection from the bow wave (not sure if that the correct terminology). Does look like an E though, maybe related to the artist, Emanuel Leutze.
The moon does look more like a star or snowflake in the higher res version. Also appears that Q's image has had a colour filter applied.
https://http591649786.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/leutzegw.jpg