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Originally Posted by SMHarman
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.
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Does anybody try and recover those containers and/or their contents? Might take up scuba diving
They lift the cable from the bottom and look at it. That must mean an awful lot of slack in the cable though, which will make it tricky to find the cable and/or the broken bit. Not sure how they find it - maybe sonar or the radiation given off by the cable.
If it's just off the coast the authorities might want to check Ebay for cheap lengths of very thick cable
