The Invisible Seafaring Industry That Keeps the Internet Afloat

This article, though absurdly long, is so visually and interactively appealing. I’ve also always wondered about undersea cable maintenance, and I had no idea how it was done or how often it was done, or by whom it was done.

The industry’s biggest recruiting challenge, however, is the industry’s invisibility. It’s a truism that people don’t think about infrastructure until it breaks, but they tend not to think about the fixing of it, either. In his 2014 essay, “Rethinking Repair,” professor of information science Steven Jackson argued that contemporary thinking about t