


Deep Sea Bacteria Anomaly: How a micro organism is literally eating our Global Internet Cables
Hi friends, many of you know about the subsea fiber optic cables that carry the internet, right? Recently I got into a discussion with a chemistry professor about the "cable bacteria" phenomenon and I became fascinated after taking a look at the works done by Lars Peter Nielsen /Annette Rowe / Moh El-Naggar regarding these bacteria that eat fiber optic cables. They are well-protected by metals like steel or copper but at 4000 meters deep, things are different and no one can know for sure if there is a crack somewhere where the bacteria can infiltrate and create chaos, and the seawater will fry the network. It’s not an apocalyptic scenario, but it can cause a lot of material damage as well as natural disasters.
As I said, I worked on a small 7-minute video research with the help of the professor it’s not very academic so it won’t bore you but if you’re interested I left a link in the comments!