How your daily connections can be connected with something that is 8000 meters below the surface of ocean?
In the debut episode of Frontiers Podcast you will get to know more about secrets roaming the net using ways that are not always expected.
Do you want to know more about submarine cables and how they are connected with NSA espionage, internet blackout in Armenia and Russian flag vessels around the Portuguese coast? You are in the right place.
We would like to invite you to talk about the Submarine Cables frontiers.
FAST DICTIONARY - Deep underwater secrets
- UNCLOS - United Nations Convention about Law of the Sea (1982): It lays down a comprehensive regime of law and order in the world's oceans and seas establishing rules governing all uses of the oceans and their resources.
- Exclusive Economic Zone: It is an area of the sea in which a sovereign state has special rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.
- Vodafone Group plc is a British multinational telecommunications company popular in Portugal
Beyond the Frontiers
Websites:
https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
Movies/Series:
Snowden (2016) - Available in streamings
Oppenheimer (2023) - Available currently in the theatres
Episode 3, Season 6 Black Mirror: Beyond the Sea (2023)
