Mind Boggling Cable Systems

[PaulineMi]

Found this interesting.  Besides the "fascination factor" it also reinforces feelings of vulnerability due to natural or man made disasters.

http://builtvisible.com/messages-in-the-deep/

[Mugwump]

Good article, nice find.........thanks

[BillT]

Reminiscent of the Glomar Explorer secretly recovering a sunken Soviet missile sub in the Pacific under the guise of mining magnesium nodules from the bottom of the ocean.

When I was an undergrad, I worked for a summer in a NOAA oceanography ship that did sampling to map magnesium nodules on the ocean floor near Hawaii.

Interestingly, the Halibut, which was involved with the cable tapping, was the first to find the sunken sub.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_K-129_%281960%29

Seymour Hersh, a great investigative reporter, first broke this story.