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Report: Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast – Gizmodo Australia
Facebook has boldly face-planted right into one of the few remaining types of fuckups it hasn’t before: quietly abandoning a pile of drilling equipment under the ocean. Per the Oregonian, Facebook subsidiary Edge Cable Holdings was in the middle of drilling t…
Facebook has boldly face-planted right into one of the few remaining types of fuckups it hasnt before: quietly abandoning a pile of drilling equipment under the ocean.
Per the Oregonian, Facebook subsidiary Edge Cable Holdings was in the middle of drilling to place a trans-oceanic fibre optic cable off the coast of Tierra Del Mar, Oregon when a drill bit became stuck on April 28, 2020, rupturing a pipe approximately 15.24 m below the seafloor. The company moved on, but about 335.28 m of pipe, a…
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