Real shades of "that cable shouldn't have been dressed like that, in a dark and narrow channel, clearly marked on navigation charts(to mitigate exactly this scenario, from good captains at least)" energy.

Unfortunately the Baltic is pretty shallow and fairly featureless - the gulf of Finland - between Finland, Estonia, and Russia averages 38 metres deep

If only they had had you in the design team back then when the cables were put in place.

I'm sorry I have no snark-free way to respond to this.

Yeah, why don't they lower the floor of the entire Baltic Sea??

Obviously, you're joking.

But how hard could it be to get a Cat 395 excavator in there? Dig a little trench and bury it.

Sounds like a weekend project to me. Has someone told the telecoms this?

I think they could just drag a suitable hook behind a ship to carve out decent trench.

Geez, how are we so much better at this than the actual engineers?

Edit: to parent comment, I think people missed your joke.

I can't tell whether this is dumb or genius.

Fun fact! Near the shore they actually do bury the cables with a plow[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQVzU_YQ3IQ&t=50s [2]

[2] There are far better videos that show this, but I'm on mobile and not going to find it right now.