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The buried wealth beneath the ocean: why retiring old subsea cables matters now

There’s more value in an old transatlantic fiber-optic cable than nostalgia. As the first generation of long-distance fiber comes up from the seabed, it’s exposing a neglected supply chain – thousands of kilometers of copper and steel, a tiny but growing salvage industry, and a workforce whose hands-on knowledge can’t be automated. This matters because […]