Contained in the world’s deepest and longest subsea highway tunnel

I’m at present round 1,000 ft beneath the North Sea, in a darkish, dank cave. It smells bizarre. And I’m more and more conscious of the strain from hundreds of thousands of tons of seawater simply above my head.

I’m below the long-lasting fjords of Norway to go to what’s going to quickly turn into the world’s longest and deepest subsea highway tunnel—an distinctive engineering feat that can carry drivers deep beneath the North Sea.

I’m right here to know the way you make a 16.6-mile freeway that sits 1,280 ft beneath the ocean at its deepest level. And likewise—at a time when it could possibly really feel arduous to get something achieved—to reassure myself that bold engineering remains to be potential. That we will nonetheless make issues. 

Step inside Norway’s Rogfast tunnel and see how engineers are making it occur.

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