Scientists use fiber-optic cables to monitor quakes, measure ocean waves, and understand fault lines.

Earlier this year an underwater volcano erupted in Tonga, triggering a widespread tsunami. While advisories were issued, there was confusion at the time because the event wasn't triggered by an earthq...

Most of our internet comes to us through garden hose-size cables on the bottom of the sea. But geopolitical games are being played, especially between the US and China. With Joe Brock and Lane Burdet...

The hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, chronicling the laying of the longest wire on Earth.

SUMMARY. A fleet of autonomously drifting profiling floats equipped with hydrophones, known by their acronym mermaid, monitors worldwide seismic activity from i

The Joint Task Force for SMART subsea cables is facilitating the integration of environmental sensors into trans-ocean commercial submarine telecommunications cables.

Thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable lining the seafloor are vulnerable to sea-level rise, storms and other climate impacts, research shows

Under the waves at the bottom of the Earth’s oceans are almost 1.5 million kilometers of submarine fiber optic cables. Going unnoticed by most everyone in the world, these cables underpin the entire...

The media loves telling stories about how one country could steal data from their adversary or cut their web connection altogether by attacking undersea cables. But how true are these claims?

5th Workshop on SMART Cable Systems: Latest Developments and Designing the Wet Demonstrator Project; Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 17–18 April 2016

HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Hawaii is always at risk of a damaging or deadly tsunami. The earlier these destructive waves can be detected, the more warning people would have to get

Scientific Reports - Submarine optical fiber communication provides an unrealized deep-sea observation network

Laced across the cold depths of the world's oceans is a network of multimillion-dollar cables, which have become the vital connections of our online lives.

Sending sensors deep into the ocean could allow for earlier and more accurate tsunami warnings.

Sustained ocean observations benefit many users and societal goals but could benefit many more. Such information is critical for using ocean resources responsibly and sustainably as the ocean becomes ...

DOOS is an international, community driven initiative that facilitates collaboration across disciplines and fields, elevates a diverse cohort of early career researchers and connects scientific advanc...

Heat waves can happen in the depths, invisible at the ocean surface.

The telecommunication cable system could also be used to gather critical natural hazard data on volcanic activity.

The first transatlantic transmission marked the culmination of 19 years of dreams, plans and hard work

SMART Subsea Cables will integrate environmental sensors into commercial submarine telecommunications cables spanning the global oceans supporting observatio...

Optical-fibre cables could spot tsunamis or the effect of climate change on currents, researchers say.

New subsea signal amplifiers could improve ocean climate resarch

Analysis of changes in the Earth’s rotation in the Precambrian suggests that day length stabilized at 19 h for 1 billion years due to tidal resonance, which may have been linked to a relatively ...

The Joint Task Force, Science Monitoring and Reliable Telecommunications (JTF SMART) Subsea Cables is working to integrate environmental sensors for ocean bottom temperature, pressure, and seismic acc...

Distributed acoustic sensing offered researchers a means to measure ground deformation from atop ice-clad Grímsvötn volcano with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolutions.