Cables cramp crabs

[XFool]

Mesmerised brown crabs ‘attracted to’ undersea cables

The Guardian

Research in Scotland shows animals freeze near the electromagnetic field with implications for metabolism and migration

[88V8]

Interesting.
We create a harmful environmental footprint even when we're trying to do 'the right thing'.
There used to be concerns around human health and powerlines, such as this association with leukaemia
https://bcmj.org/bccdc/living-near-power-lines-bad-our-health but that seems to have dropped out of the popular narrative.

V8

[dionaeamuscipula]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... rk-attacks

Article is from 2014, but I know that one of the first trial* optical cables (so late 80s) failed because of a shark bite, so the phenomenon has been known about for over 35 years.

DM
*I think. Might have been one of the very early commercial cables.

[scotia]

Many moons ago we ran some field cable (as used in the distant past for military telephony) down a Scottish hillside in order to record some data from a Hydro plant. We had no problems with crabs or sharks, but the sheep took a fancy to it.