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The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat Photo by Go Takayama for The VergeOn the afternoon of March 11th, 2011, Mitsuyoshi Hirai, the chief engineer of the cable maintenance ship Ocean Link, was sitting in his cabin 20 miles off Japan’s eastern coast, completing the paperwork that comes at the end of every repair. Two weeks earlier, something — you rarely knew what — damaged the 13,00...
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