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Obviously, you're joking.

But how hard could it be to get a Cat 395 excavator in there? Dig a little trench and bury it.

Sounds like a weekend project to me. Has someone told the telecoms this?



I think they could just drag a suitable hook behind a ship to carve out decent trench.

Geez, how are we so much better at this than the actual engineers?

Edit: to parent comment, I think people missed your joke.


I can't tell whether this is dumb or genius.


Fun fact! Near the shore they actually do bury the cables with a plow[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQVzU_YQ3IQ&t=50s [2]

[2] There are far better videos that show this, but I'm on mobile and not going to find it right now.




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