It's ruggedized cable, designed to live underwater for decades(or centuries at this point). Besides, there's hundreds of miles of it, what else are you going to do?
From here on out, no more undersea cables. I won't have my data associating with riffraff of this sort. With such undignified origins, who knows what these cables might be capable of?
Now underground cables are a completely different breed entirely. Its installation is an altogether more dignified affair.
The soil is carefully tilled by refined gentlemen wielding silver spades and wearing freshly-pressed tuxedos. They carefully lay the cable down into its final resting place, whilst a full orchestra plays a requiem ever so softly in the background.
