06 Jan 2026
Image by jbauer-fotographie from Pixabay Authorities across the Baltic region have been placed on high alert following a new wave of disruptions to subsea infrastructure, with investigators in Finland and Latvia probing separate incidents of damaged telecommunications cables. The latest security concerns began on December 31, 2025, when Finnish authorities intercepted the cargo vessel Fitburg in the […]
27 Mar 2024
The first project to proceed under a new fast track process has received a provisional £2billion funding package to deliver a subsea energy superhighway which could connect up to two million homes to clean energy. The proposed Eastern Green Link 1 (EGL1) high voltage subsea cable would be able to transport 2GW of wind generated electricity […]
05 Jul 2022
Using stretches of fibre optic cables as sensors could enable continuous, real-time monitoring of conditions at the bottom of oceans and seas, and below the planet’s surface, researchers say. Despite sensing technologies advancing significantly in recent years, oceans and seas remain largely unmonitored as installing permanent ocean-floor sensors is very expensive. The new technique could […]
07 Jun 2022
Using stretches of fibre optic cables as sensors could enable continuous, real-time monitoring of conditions at the bottom of oceans and seas, and below the planet’s surface, researchers say. Despite sensing technologies advancing significantly in recent years, oceans and seas remain largely unmonitored as installing permanent ocean-floor sensors is very expensive. The new technique could […]
07 Nov 2016
Whilst scientists have known that marine species can detect electromagnetic fields for many decades research in the laboratory demonstrates this ability but has been difficult to transfer to field conditions. Do these cables affect behaviour and populations in the environment? This study has used field observations around existing cables to test the behavioural and ecological […]