Cameras monitoring a submarine cable shows a shark chomping straight into it. Courtesy Youtube/Sudmike
Tasty treat...Sharks have been munching on Google's underwater data cables. Picture: supplied. Source: Supplied
A NEW food craze is sweeping the underwater world with sharks taking a fancy to Google's undersea data cables.
Vision has emerged showing sharks munching away on the cables, mistaking them for dinner.
Google has been forced to take action, reinforcing parts of the trans-Pacific fibre-optic cables and wrapping them in material to keep the sharks at bay.
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Dinner time....It is thought that any electric impulses the cable sends out could actually mimic the currents made by sharks' potential prey. Picture: supplied. Source: Supplied
The reinforcement initiative is going to be a big job as Google owns over 160,000km of private fibre optic routes around the world.
The cables will now be wrapped in Kevlar-like material which will hopefully keep them out of the jaws of the ocean predators.
It's not known why they are eating the cables but a popular theory is that any electric impulses the cable sends out could actually mimic the currents made by sharks' potential prey.
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