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The tool of choice for cutting undersea cables & pipelines seems to currently be tankers dragging anchors across the seafloor. There's no economically viable pr
by Zanfa 2y ago
The tool of choice for cutting undersea cables & pipelines seems to currently be tankers dragging anchors across the seafloor. There's no economically viable protection able to withstand forces like that.
- ben_w 2y agoThis is reportedly the largest anchor in the world (not my domain, I wouldn't know): https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/hxnyf0/worlds_largest_ship_anchor/?rdt=35505 https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/hxnyf0/w... Eyeballing it, the cable I'm suggesting has a metal part about four times that anchor's cross section, let alone the chain's cross section. Even if it was bare metal (in the ocean, which would be madness all by itself), the anchor or the chain would break well before the power cable. With a moderate layer of, say, concrete, that anchor wouldn't even be able to hook onto the cable as the arms don't go out far enough.