Recent damage to two undersea communication cables in the Baltic Sea raised immediate questions about whether the incident ...

As dawn broke over San Juan Island, a team of scientists stood on the deck of a barge and unspooled over a mile of fibre optic cable into the frigid waters of the Salish Sea. Working by headlamp, they ...

A high-stakes rivalry is playing out over a vast but vulnerable web of underwater cables that carry nearly all global internet traffic It was a February night off Taiwan’s southwest coast when cargo ...

Against that backdrop, Japan launched a “Study Group on the Protection of International Submarine Cables” in November 2025.

The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted ​to toughen oversight of ‌submarine communications cables that handle ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea disrupted internet access in parts of Asia and the Middle East, experts said Sunday, though it wasn’t immediately clear what caused the ...

A digital Earth globe showing undersea internet cables running between countries. Not a real representation of cable placement. - Imaginima/Getty Images There are lots of ways your internet can go ...

A Chinese ship has tested a new device capable of slicing through submarine data cables thousands of meters beneath the ocean surface. That demonstration may exacerbate security concerns over a spate ...

You may or may not know this, but about 99% of international internet traffic is made possible and flows through undersea cables. Basically, advanced fiber-optic cables make it possible to send and ...

In the 1970s, the USSR had an undersea cable connecting a major naval base at Petropavlovsk to the Pacific Fleet headquarters at Vladivostok. The cable traversed the Sea of Okhotsk, which, at the time ...