The internet isn’t in a cloud. It’s 600 cables on the ocean floor, and a single one is about as thick as a garden hose.

An estimated $10 trillion crosses these cables every day, and roughly 60 ships on the entire planet keep them running. Ship ...
Scientific American

Long-lost coral reefs rediscovered off the coast of Africa

Some 60 years ago scientists documented a coral reef off the coast of Benin in West Africa that they presumed was already ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This 1950s Airplane Disaster Prompted the Flight Safety Demonstrations Passengers Know Today. Searchers Just Found the Wreckage in the Atlantic Ocean

A team of explorers used an autonomous underwater vehicle to locate the remains of the Pan American ‘Clipper Endeavor’ about ...
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Russia’s ‘hydronauts’ targeted Britain’s undersea cables

For roughly a month earlier this spring, Royal Navy warships and Norwegian naval forces tracked three Russian submarines as they moved through waters thick with the undersea cables and pipelines that ...