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Re:Protecting Undersea Internet Cables Is a Tech Nightmare by fpoling on Saturday December 07, 2024 @01:40PM (#42351790)
One ship with an anchor on the bottom can destroy 100 cables just as well as one.
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Re:Protecting Undersea Internet Cables Is a Tech Nightmare by ViewTrick1002 on Saturday December 07, 2024 @02:07PM (#42351996)
You can also do the extra work to bury the cable.
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Re:Protecting Undersea Internet Cables Is a Tech Nightmare by lostmsu on Saturday December 07, 2024 @02:27PM (#42352164)
Probably impractical. Digging underwater is much harder than carefully lowering something on the floor.
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Re:Protecting Undersea Internet Cables Is a Tech Nightmare by ceejayoz on Saturday December 07, 2024 @03:35PM (#42352688)
They have a handy tool for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe-and-cable-laying_plough

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Re:Protecting Undersea Internet Cables Is a Tech Nightmare by raelming on Saturday December 07, 2024 @03:21PM (#42352586)
There's already underwater powered trenching/laying equipment they use to bury the cables within X miles from the shore. The Baltic Sea is probably shallow enough to bury it all the way across at a higher cost per mile of course.
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Re:Protecting Undersea Internet Cables Is a Tech Nightmare by guidedlight on Saturday December 07, 2024 @09:08PM (#42354465)
Plus it could cause damage to environmental ecosystems.
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Re:Protecting Undersea Internet Cables Is a Tech Nightmare by Aloisius on Saturday December 07, 2024 @04:59PM (#42353175)
The C-Lion1 cable that was cut was reported buried 1 meter below the seabed.

Unfortunately, that wasn't deep enough since heavy ship anchors which can dig in deeper than that.

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