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 ...

On Christmas Day 2024, Finnish special forces stormed the oil tanker Eagle S in the icy waters 50 miles off Finland's coast.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Have you ever wondered how an email sent from New York arrives in Sydney in mere seconds, or how you can video chat with someone on the other side of the globe with barely a hint of delay? Behind ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Three Red Sea underwater cables providing internet and telecommunications around the world have been cut as the waterway remains a target of Yemen’s Houthi rebels, ...

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 ...