This installation documents the material traces of the global network of submarine fiber-optic cables that sustain online connectivity. It displays a selection of carefully identified satellite images to reveal the scars – the physical impact – of an infrastructure that seeks to remain unnoticed beneath the ocean. The specific locations of these cables (and their onshore landing stations) are corporate and governmental secrets. Their public representations, the maps that are available, are geographically vague. Through a custom-made tracking protocol, involving a variety of navigational tools, private databases, and government documents, this work publicly compiles the precise locations of the cables’ landing points around the world. The piece is accompanied by a voiceover that ruminates on the mechanisms that sustain the fiction of the internet’s immateriality. It poses dilemmas surrounding our technical complicity with the colonial legacy of maps and with the simulation of proximity performed by computational technologies. This while it also reflects on water’s capacity to challenge cartographic capture as it allows us to relate to space through principles of inseparability and territorial specificity.