Perfectly Awesome

The cables at the heart of the lightspeed, globe-spanning internet run across the grimy, perilous, inaccessible deeps of the sea, in places no one ever sees or visits – until the cables break.

A recent, alleged Baltic Sea sabotage highlights the system’s fragility

The internet is a series of tubes. In the ocean.

Exclusive photos show the damage in detail. They may explain what happened, but the question of guilt remains.

TeleGeography's comprehensive and regularly updated interactive map of the world's major submarine cable systems and landing stations.