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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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Fibre cannot be easily joined if the cable has been snagged by something it would probably need replacement due to ingress of seawater.
Usually cables are buried there are tools avaiable during laying that dig cables into the sea bed.
Out sheaths are usually armoured so would withstand damage
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