Here’s an interesting BBC article about a ship that keeps undersea cables connected. In some countries, this is their only connection to the internet so when the cable has a problem, an entire country goes offline.

“Because of me, countries stay connected,” Shuru Arendse, a cable jointer from South Africa who has been working on the ship for more than a decade, tells the BBC.

The article mentions the May 2024 undersea cable problem which creates network problems in Cameroon for a while.

Read more at this link.