Submarine cable laying

[Yotch]

Here are some interesting photographs from Australia of the insides of a submarine cable laying ship. Includes various pictures of a trenching tool, cable spools, air conditioning units etc.
http://onut.net/computers/misc/cable-laying-ile-de-Sein.html
http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/com...e-optic-cable/0,139023754,339288061-1s,00.htm

Progress reports together with pictures from one of Australia's large submarine cable projects that is currently under construction ...
http://www.pipeinternational.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=65
http://www.pipeinternational.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22&Itemid=66
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/17633/127/

It's a pity that Seacom hasn't done something similar.

 

[Franna]

See more pictures from the Seacom cable:

http://www.seacom.mu/progress/gallery.html

 

[Just_Ice]

Which country is ".mu"?

 

[Yotch]

@Franna: Thanks for the Seacom link. Will be interesting to watch.

@J_I: Possibly Mauritius, otherwise Robert Mugabe's personal domain? According to Wikipedia Mu is actually a mythical continent in the Pacific.

 

[Deenem]

25 year lifespan!

I'd demand a bit more if I was paying that much ;-)

 

[HavocXphere]

Slightly OT: They identified which ships cut the cables that caused the arab internet blackout. Some noob chucked an anchor overboard in the wrong spot and they have the satellite shots to prove it.

 

[Globetrotter]

Which country is ".mu"?

Mauritius

 

[Just_Ice]

Thanks, but why would seacom have a Mauritius domain?

 

[qinglung]

Because they are registered there, from some random internet article:

A Mauritius registered private equity venture SEACOM has secured funding and will begin to build a fibre optic cable along the east African coast to link the continent to Europe and Asia,...