Connecting and anchoring device

A connecting and anchoring device, comprising:

• a cable element comprising one or more cables, a gate cable termination structure, and a spine cable termination structure, wherein one of the one or more cables enters the spine cable termination structure at a first point of entry and wherein the same or a different one of the one or more cables enters the gate cable termination structure at a second point of entry, each of the one or more cables having a respective nominal diameter;
• and
• one or more housings for the one or more cables of the cable element including a gate housing for housing a gating portion of the cable element that includes the gate cable termination structure and a spine housing for housing a spinal portion of the cable element that includes the spine cable termination structure, the gate housing including a manipulable locking element, the gate and spine cable termination structures having a first set of complementary mating shapes or structures, the device configured to provide for changing between a first configuration of the connecting and anchoring device in which the complementary mating shapes or structures are locked together so as to inhibit separation thereof, and a second configuration in which the complementary mating shapes or structures can be freely separated from one another as a consequence of manipulating the locking element, and wherein the device, in at least the first configuration, defines a closed aperture therethrough,
• the one or more housings being relatively weak compared to the respective one or more cables, at least one of the gate and spine housing being provided with a weakening feature configured to ensure deformation and/or failure thereof under a bending load no closer to the associated point of entry to the associated cable termination structure than a distance of about ¼ of the nominal diameter of the cable terminated therein.