Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier

Sheriff’s office dive team recovers pickup that slid into Cedar River

WATERLOO — Sheriff's deputies have retrieved a pickup truck that slipped into the Cedar River earlier this week.

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 ...