The bottom of the sea is a mysterious and inaccessible place, and anything unfortunate enough to slip beneath the waves and into the briny depths might as well be on the Moon. But the bottom of the ...

In the midst of US-Soviet tensions over Berlin in early 1959, five transatlantic submarine cables suddenly stopped working. Alarm bells rang in Washington since these undersea information networks ...

Something was wrong in the vast undersea canyon known as the Bottomless Hole. One by one, internet cables were failing on a seabed so deep that no human has ever set foot on it. And as they did, life ...

If an undersea data or power cable is cut or damaged, what prevents seawater (or fresh if they go through lakes I guess) and organisms and other material from seeping into the cable at the open point ...

Papua New Guinea's DataCo has secured and scheduled a repair vessel for mid-October to carry out repair work on multiple cable breakages in Madang, following last month's earthquake. However the ...

Concerns have been raised about the Russian ship Yantar's ability to cut or tap into undersea cables. (Yoruk Isik) The dependence on Chinese repair assets and the lack of Russian dependence on subsea ...

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Tasmanians are being reassured there is no threat to power supplies as repairs to the electricity and communications undersea cable that connects Tasmania to the mainland are delayed again. The ...

Google has announced plans to build a new undersea network cable connecting the US, UK and Spain. The tech giant says it is incorporating new technology into the cable, which it claims is a ...