As CityMetric reports, the "Talsinkifix" rail link project would cost €9bn at current prices, and, at a minimum of 50km from one coast to the other, would be the longest undersea tunnel in the world.
Authorities in Helsinki and Tallinn are looking into the possibility of linking the two cities via an undersea tunnel – and have commissioned a feasibility study, with the help of the EU.
GCHQ had been tapping the undersea cables that carry the internet in and out of the UK for years, but Tempora provided the ability to analyse the information in almost real time, rather than dumping the data into vast but simple electronic storage bins that take time to sift through.
He and colleagues were working on a ship towing a sonar radar when they approached an undersea ridge.
The reason is that one place in the ocean depths where methane hydrate forms all too frequently is inside pipes carrying oil from undersea wells to rigs at the surface.
Mr Leeson, whose losses of £860m ($1.36 billion) brought down Barings bank, has sold his story to a newspaper for a reputed £100,000.See article: Barings' collapse recalledAmerica's Justice Department started antitrust investigations of undersea telecommunications-cable businesses.
Mr Vajpayee has ended the monopoly and will allow private Internet service providers to do their own deals with the operators of undersea cables.
(A Greek-Cypriot plan to build a gas terminal on Cyprus and an undersea pipeline to Crete, Greece and Italy, is seen as expensive and impracticable).
Thanks to steady progress in undersea networks, what was once a technological marvel was, a US Navy statement explained, "no longer necessary".
BP's "top kill" attempt to plug its gushing undersea pipeline was a failure; some estimated that the oil could pour out for weeks to come; and the Justice Department opened civil and criminal investigations into the blast that caused the disaster.
Undersea robots, similar to those used to investigate the Titanic, were sent down through more than 4,000 metres (13,000 feet) of water to confirm the find.There are a few caveats.
