How do they make pillars long enough to reach the sea floor for Sea Bridges?

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And doesn’t the water pressure make everything more difficult to work with?

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Norway is going a different route.

At Bjørnafjord in Western Norway the water is half a kilometre deep which is far too deep for a conventional bridge; so they are going to build a bridge whose piers float on the water and are held in place by cables attached to the bottom of the fjord.

[https://dissingweitling.com/en/project/bjørnafjorden](https://dissingweitling.com/en/project/bjørnafjorden)

This is just part of a colossal infrastructure project to upgrade the E39 route along the coast which currently requires a large number of ferry journeys. The B1M has a video about this plan which is the sort of thing you can only do if you have all the money in the World:

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