are underwater routers a thing?

Fri Mar 18 15:50:34 UTC 2022

> I was reading an article in the Economist about a new fiber route down the 
> Red Sea from Israel and wondered if there were any branches off of those 
> lines and where the routers were for them. The route kind of made it look 
> like it was completely at sea, but it would kind of make sense to leave them 
> at sea if you could put a router there.

The NSA taps aren't really routers per se but networking devices 
nonetheless.

 			- Ethan