Cable-Cutting : Cat And Mouse

New fibre optic sensing technology is being deployed under the Baltic Sea to detect and deter sabotage attempts on Europe’s critical subsea data cables.

Subsea Cables Carry the World’s Internet

Many people may not know that nearly all global internet traffic depends on cables running across the seabed. Although these are slender fibre optic lines, often just a few centimetres thick, they actually carry around 99 per cent of intercontinental data! As such, these cables link whole countries, power financial markets, and support global communications infrastructure.