The Fragile Garden Hoses Under the Ocean Powering the Entire Internet

A 5-minute explainer on submarine cables — 99% of intercontinental data through garden-hose-thick fibre on the ocean floor. The 1858 telegraph cable that died in three weeks, modern cable ships laying 200 km a day, the 2022 Tonga cut that silenced a nation for five weeks, shark-bite myths versus anchor-drag reality, and the map of every cable on Earth. End on who owns them now: Google and Meta.