Your periodic reminder that the Internet actually is a Series of Tubes.
https://www.theverge.com/c/24070570/internet-cables-undersea-deep-repair-ships
I probably should have checked that it wasn't paywalled first. Wayback Machine to the rescue: https://web.archive.org/web/20240204160000/https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/