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Just in time for Shark Week, here's a video showing sharks repeatedly trying to eat Google's underwater cables.
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You can stop watching after 20 seconds. Just shows the shark swimming around after the initial bite.
I wonder if it just has some kind of coating on it that's appealing, as after all its fiber so no electrical attraction and not shiny. *shrugs* I guess the better term would be "sampling" the cable rather than eating it.
Answer is right in the article.I wonder if it just has some kind of coating on it that's appealing, as after all its fiber so no electrical attraction and not shiny. *shrugs* I guess the better term would be "sampling" the cable rather than eating it.
article said:Unlike short-haul terrestrial fiber cables or old copper cables where the fiber did not emit noticeable fields, undersea cables must carry high voltage power to the undersea repeaters, which result in both electric and magnetic fields around and along the cable Some sharks mistaken the electric fields for distressed fish and attempt to feed on the cable.
Thanks for saving me 1:02 of my life.. which I just spent typing this.. so in essence it was a zero sum game
Sharks bite things even if they dont know what it is. Usually how humans get bit.
Needs more salt.....
no one posted the obvious yet: teh shark was just adding fibre to his diet
i am disappoint H
no one posted the obvious yet: teh shark was just adding fibre to his diet
i am disappoint H
Sharks bite things even if they dont know what it is. Usually how humans get bit.
NSA trained shark, tapping into your undersea interwebs. That isn't a fart, it's a data transmission to the surface...