[tinco]

Bitten by a shark, or snagged on a russian submarine? Whichever the case, I just ran an ansible deployment over our cluster that's spread over their Frankfurt and Helsinki datacenters, and I didn't notice any difference. I guess that's to be expected, their line between those datacenters is just an optimization, the internet is still functioning as it always is and maybe Hetzner gets a slightly larger egress bill from their ISP as the inter-dc traffic gets rerouted the general internet.

[HL33tibCe7]

> Bitten by a shark, or snagged on a russian submarine?

In all likelihood much less interesting, probably snagged in a fishing net or hit by an anchor.

[HatchedLake721]

Can’t rule out Russian military dolphins these days.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/27/russia-black-s...

[dtx1]

> Global Pandemic? Check > Transnational Giga Companies controlling the world? Check > Military Dolphins? Check > Smuggling Gigabytes of Data via Implants? Not yet.

I rate the current situation as a strong 3/4 Johnny Mnemonics!

[konart]

>Russian

>these days

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_marine_mammal

[Mo3]

Military dolphins...

[fghorow]

"With frickin laser beams!"

[barefeg]

I imagined they would be hurried under the sea bed. Probably cheaper to place them on the surface?

[McBeige]

I imagined it'd too impractical to bury them in case they need repairs, but apparently they're buried at least in some cases.

According to [1], a plough is dragged along the ocean floor behind the cable laying ship. The plough digs a trench that the cables are fed into. I can't really tell from the pictures whether the trench is covered back up.

[2] shows a really cool animation. Apparently ploughs like these can bury cables 2-3 meters into the ocean floor, and use a jet of water to help dig. Good stuff.

1: https://www.quora.com/How-are-major-undersea-cables-laid-in-... 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hEDTRU_F2s

[barefeg]

Wow that’s one very interesting specialized machine

[nabla9]

There are not many sharks that can bite cables in the Baltic see due to low salinity, it's border-line freshwater.

[user3939382]

The models of these cables that I've seen shows them in a jacket of steel so I doubt it's a shark. Or that was a joke that went over my head...