{"id":204595,"date":"2025-01-26T22:43:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T04:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/the-worlds-longest-immersed-tunnel-is-almost-built-a-7-billion-project-without-a-tunnel-boring-machine"},"modified":"2025-01-26T22:43:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T04:43:54","slug":"the-worlds-longest-immersed-tunnel-is-almost-built-a-7-billion-project-without-a-tunnel-boring-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/the-worlds-longest-immersed-tunnel-is-almost-built-a-7-billion-project-without-a-tunnel-boring-machine","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Longest Immersed Tunnel Is Almost Built\u2014a $7 Billion Project Without a Tunnel Boring Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-longest-immersed-tunnel-is-almost-built-a-7-billion-project-without-a-tunnel-boring-machine.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What if the future of tunnels wasn\u2019t about digging? The Fehmarnbelt Tunnel, the world\u2019s largest immersed tunnel, is being built without a single tunnel boring machine. Instead, engineers are using a bold, unconventional method that\u2019s faster, more precise, and environmentally conscious. Stretching 18 kilometers beneath the Baltic Sea, this $7 billion project is set to transform travel and trade in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if the future of tunnels wasn\u2019t about digging? The Fehmarnbelt Tunnel, the world\u2019s largest immersed tunnel, is being built without a single tunnel boring machine. Instead, engineers are using a bold, unconventional method that\u2019s faster, more precise, and environmentally conscious. Stretching 18 kilometers beneath the Baltic Sea, this $7 billion project is set to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}