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by bigiain 1795 days ago
I remember about 10 years ago, sitting drinking coffee with a friend who was a "network guy" at Google.

His phone goes "beep", he looks at it and goes "That's odd, we just lost two undersea fibres at the same time, about 50 miles off the east coast of Japan..."

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Yep, that does happen.

Sometimes Sharks attack the cables too!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/melissacristinamarquez/2020/07/...