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Originally Posted by greencreeper
The dangers of skim reading  Any witty ideas as to what caused the break then? Earthquakes are out because our plate is fairly stable. No sharks to speak of - well, very few. Maybe a barrel of radioactive waste dropped on the cable? The Irish trying to tunnel out? |
Could be a container that fell overboard and touched down on top of it, 20,000 fall overboard each year!
Must take some interesting skill sets to repair it. Do you pull it off the ground to examine it, or send a submersible to look at it. Do you send divers down to repair it? You can hardly spot weld it, or pull it up?
It kinda makes sense that the break happened along a coastline, the water is shallower and more likely to shift at the bottom, the cable across the mid atlantic is probably exactly where it was first laid.