[LaurentS]

A few years ago, while strolling along the beach in Myanmar, I happened upon SeaMeWe-5, which was accessible to anyone willing to peek into a manhole (why I peeked down that manhole, I'll never know). At the time, the cable was pumping about 90% of the country's internet traffic, if I recall correctly. I thought it was quite worrying that it was so unprotected... With a shovel, I could have been that woman too. https://www.submarinecablemap.com/#/landing-point/ngwe-saung...

[msravi]

Genuinely curious - how did you know that it was a trans-national submarine cable? I mean, I would probably have dismissed it as a local fiber optic cable or something...

[iso1210]

He was on the beach, highly likely that the cable would be going into the sea

[LaurentS]

The cable was tagged with its name, it was very easy to read, probably brand new