Subsea plough: Art x Engineering

Soil Machine Dynamics engineered the world's first subsea plough, digging and burying the intercontinental cables that enable the world’s communications systems    

Hidden underground, pipes and cable are sheltered from fishing equipment and currents. 

The remotely controlled ploughs are equipped with monitoring systems and can work in all soil types, in deep waters and without the need for divers to oversee their operation.

The artist was inspired by the plough’s ability to simultaneously create a trench, lay and bury fibre optic cable in the extreme conditions on the ocean floor.