A deep-sea 'emergency service' keeps the internet running

Discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40075402

So good and so long that I have a printed paper copy from around the early 00's. Younger Me must have bought a ream of paper to justify the expense of printing it lol

Gave away my original print copy but it was such an amazing read for 23-yr-old me. It changed the wiring in my brain to think about truly global-scale infra problems differently.

I have access - that paper says:

> Such an incident has wider implications because subsea cables carry >99% of all international data traffic, including the internet and trillions of dollars per day in financial transactions

and in turn cites "L. Carter, R. Gavey, P. J. Talling, J. T. Liu, Oceanography 27, 58–67 (2014)", which I can't find a working link for.

So it's actually talking about international traffic. Although even then, that's a little hard to believe.