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 ...

Major cables carrying data in the Red Sea, the waterway between Northeast Africa and the Arabian Peninsula that connects Europe with Asia, have reportedly been damaged by Houthi rebels operating from ...

Earlier this year, I wrote about the difficult work of repairing subsea cables and their increasing geopolitical importance. Today, The Wall Street Journal reports investigators believe a Chinese ...

In the early days of the pandemic, I began pondering the idea of healing. I stumbled upon a story about a cable repair vessel, the Leon Thevenin, which had attended to a cable break off the west coast ...

Two subsea data cables in the Baltic Sea were damaged this week. "Nobody believes that these cables were cut accidentally," said the German defense minister. Cables around the world are vulnerable to ...

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius speaks during a press conference following a bilateral meeting with his French counterpart Sebastien Lecornu, in Paris, France ...

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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