On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Chuck Church wrote: > I've often wondered the same thing. I dug this up on google. Amazingly > it dates back to the 1890s! > http://www.atlantic-cable.com/
Well apparently I failed to send my post to the whole list and I just replied to the original poster. Anyway here are my comments on one of the replies to him. Actually the sled lays on the bottom and is pulled behind the boat. Then it works like a ditchwitch to dig a trench and put the cable inside. The cable is spooled on the deck of the ship (the cable flows down to the sled) and is spliced right there on the deck. When its time to stop for bad weather they will tie bouys to the cable and sled chains and then leave and come back later. How do they lay cable across the ocean? http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20000630.html Undersea Cable Systems http://www.wscr.com/6-7web/tycom2.pdf An Oversimplified Overview of Undersea Cable Systems http://davidw.home.cern.ch/davidw/public/SubCables.html DiveWeb - Subsea Telecom http://www.diveweb.com/telecom/index.shtml Later, Andrew --- http://www.andrewsworld.net/ ICQ: 2895251 Cisco Certified Network Associate "Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself." Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=59997&t=59994 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
