The sea carries the modern world.
We've stopped watching it.
Pelagon is changing that.
The sea carries the modern world. 90% of trade, 99% of intercontinental data in 550 subsea cables. Europe's energy transition is built offshore. The sea is the physical layer of the European economy.
And it is largely unwatched. A €1B frigate covers one patch of ocean at a time. Exquisite platforms cannot close this gap.
Adversaries have made it the terrain of hybrid war: Baltic cable cuts, Nord Stream, the Red Sea shut down, 600 shadow-fleet tankers running AIS-dark. A capable autonomous underwater vehicle is now within reach of any state or non-state actor. The subsurface threat is the fastest-growing of all.
Europe needs a strong response. More frigates will not close a coverage gap this large. The answer is a doctrinal shift.