> caused by wildlife
Can you further explain this part? It sounds so out there with undersea cable.
The only thing I can think of is that wildfire cause erosion in soil which wash off into the sea and damage the end point?
Can you further explain this part? It sounds so out there with undersea cable.
The only thing I can think of is that wildfire cause erosion in soil which wash off into the sea and damage the end point?
Things like a whale getting entangled in it, and then using all its strength to get free, breaking the cable.
Submarine cable is buried when it's at depths of 2000 Meters or less. It is done so using jet-plow technology. Beyond depths of 2000 meters the cable simply sinks to floor and rests there. It most certainly does not hang across a valley the way high tension power lines do above ground. Also cable routes are carefully planned to avoid trenches wherever possible. Where that's not possible it's simply sunk by its' own weight down to the ocean floor.