Two subsea cables off Perth suffer ‘concerning’ damage. Lasers could help protect them

JEAN-SEBASTIEN EVRARD/Stringer/Getty Earlier this week, Bevan Slattery, the chief executive of subsea cable company SubCo, announced that two cables had experienced faults over the weekend. He deemed it a “concerning development” because these “submarine cables are the digital lifeblood of our nation”. Slattery called on federal police to investigate the issue urgently. The subsea cable damage occurred within the Perth Submarine Cable Protection Zone, an area specifically designed to keep…