The sea link is the first part of the ambitious, and some say misguided, Western Freeway Sea Project aimed at providing a faster alternative to Mumbai's north-south traffic that currently moves at a crawling pace.
The cable hit in Wednesday's apparent sabotage was the South East Asia Middle East Western Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) - one of the main cables snaking under the Mediterranean, Mena said.
Flanked by the mountainous Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea, the slender state descends from tea plantation-cloaked slopes to golden beaches that edge into vivid blue seas.