A Journey To The Bottom Of The Internet

(via Nat and Lo)  The internet is powered by over 300 heavy duty underwater cables that carry 99% of all international data from continent to continent to your fingertips almost instantaneously. Natalie Hammel and Lorraine Yurshansky go behind the scenes at Google and onto a ship that will install the Monet cable system to see what these incredible cables are made of and how they’re installed.