What a great article on the undersea cables that carry most internet traffic. In short, constant maintenance is needed.

https://www.theverge.com/c/24070570/internet-cables-undersea-deep-repair-ships

@festal @mrsbunz That reminds me of an article from 1996 about the internet cable(s) in Wired

https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/

I definitely need to re-read this, but might be fun to contrast them.