The first transatlantic internet cable ever is being retired and pulled from the ocean floor. Here's how it's being done and what happens next.

In Grover Beach, construction crews are installing steel conduits in the ocean to hold subsea fiber optic cables. “Ninety-five percent of all telecommunications traffic happens on a fiber optic cable, ...

TL;DR: Sharks are often blamed for damaging undersea cables, but the real forces reshaping the Atlantic's fiber backbone are engineers, grapnels, and diesel-electric ships retrieving decades-old glass ...

SAN JUAN ISLAND, Wash. (AP) — As dawn broke over San Juan Island, a team of scientists stood on the deck of a barge and unspooled over a mile of fiber-optic cable into the frigid waters of the Salish ...

History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fiber-optic cable from the ocean floor. Just don’t mention sharks.

Communications cables are only part of the story. A far broader array of systems now covers the ocean floor – and must be protected. But communications cables are only part of the story. A far broader ...