cable laying ship

The Dark Cloud: How the Digital World Is Costing the Earth

by Guillaume Pitron  · 14 Jun 2023  · 271pp  · 79,355 words

-fired plants, and strategic-metals mines, all aligned in the triple quest for power, speed, and cold. It is also an amphibious realm, traversed by cableships and supertankers, and populated by businessmen, sailors, miners, computer scientists, builders, electricians, streetsweepers, and tanker escorts — men and women pitted against fascinating ecological, economic, and

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gamble by investing in [them]’, according to an expert.59 On a global scale, the industry therefore works with no more than some 30 transoceanic cable-laying ships, divided primarily between three key players: the French company Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN); the US company SubCom; and the Japanese company NEC.60 Added to

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded

by Simon Winchester  · 1 Jan 2003  · 582pp  · 136,780 words

Press, 1960) Gilbert, J. S., and Sparks, R. S. J., The Physics of Explosive Volcanic Eruptions (London, Geological Society of London, 1998) Haigh, K. R., Cableships and Submarine Cables (London, Adlard Coles, 1968) Hall, R., and Blundell, D. J. (eds.), Tectonic Evolution of Southeast Asia (London, Geological Society of London, 1996

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, 32, 54, 59, 139, 325, 326 East Pacific Rise 308 Easter Island 308 Eastern Telegraph Company 189, 193, 197 ecological interdependence 271 Ecuador 308 Edinburgh (cable-laying ship) 189 Ega, Brazil 58 Egeron (ship) 170, 171 elephants 116, 307n Elisabeth (German warship) 157–60, 183, 213 Emden (German surface raider) 190n Emden, Germany

The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

by Jacob Helberg  · 11 Oct 2021  · 521pp  · 118,183 words

of plastic and sometimes steel wire. The cables are then covered in metal mesh and thick rubber hosing and laid in trenches gouged out by cable-laying ships. These transoceanic cables emerge at landing stations, where the fiber-optic cables are fused to land-based cables and linked to a country’s Internet

Some Remarks

by Neal Stephenson  · 6 Aug 2012  · 335pp  · 107,779 words

so shoddily that in some places the core could be seen poking out through its gutta-percha insulation even before it was loaded onto the cable-laying ship. But venture capitalists back then were a more rugged—not to say crazy—breed, and there can be no better evidence than that they let

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at five in the morning during a long and ultimately futile wait for the Egyptian military to give us permission to rendezvous with FLAG’s cable-laying ship in the Gulf of Suez. To the hacker, the most interesting thing about the pyramids is their business plan, which is the simplest and most

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ring. And you can’t lay a cable down the Suez Canal, partly because it would catch hell from anchors and dredgers, and partly because cable-laying ships move very slowly and would create an enormous traffic jam. The only solution that is even remotely acceptable is to land the cable on Egypt

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is a new submarine cable called Africa 1 that is going to completely encircle that continent, it being much easier to circumnavigate Africa with a cable-laying ship than to run ducts and cables across it (though I would like to see Alan Wall have a go at it). Africa 1 will also

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. It turned out that the former owner of this mansion had been the captain of the Great Eastern, the first of the great deep-sea cable-laying ships. The Great Eastern got that job because it was by a long chalk the largest ship on the planet at the time—so large that

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definitely a black art.” Cable & Wireless’s Marine Survey department has nailed the slack control problem. That, in combination with the company’s fleet of cable-laying ships and its human capital, makes it dominant in the submarine cable-laying world. By “human capital” I mean their ability to dispatch weather-beaten operatives

Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet

by Andrew Blum  · 28 May 2012  · 314pp  · 83,631 words

competitor, the Main One cable, which followed nearly the identical route. They had been on call around the clock, waiting for direction from Tyco’s cable-laying ship, the Resolute, bobbing somewhere off the coast of Nigeria, the cable hauled up into its workshop, as its own technicians struggled to get out the

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that never arrived and had sat empty since. A red tent had been erected beside it, to house a temporary workshop. The next day, the cable-laying ship Peter Faber—specially designed for “near-shore operations”—would steam over from Lisbon with two miles of cable in its hold. It would be dragged

The Cable

by Gillian Cookson  · 19 Sep 2012  · 136pp  · 42,864 words

. They now knew that it was impossible to use a vessel such as the Bryant, without its own steam power, on such a mission. The cable-laying ship needed its own steam, to better regulate its motion and speed, manoeuvring as the sea rose and fell so that the strain on the telegraph

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was also the man who had struggled alone in the telegraph station there as the 1858 cable died. Because of the great size of the cable-laying ship, the landing points at both sides of the ocean had to change. Instead of Valentia harbour, the cable would leave from Foilhommerum Bay five miles

Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

by Simon Winchester  · 27 Oct 2009  · 522pp  · 150,592 words

Dock—the only structure of any note that ever sought to mark Cape Town out as a landmark Atlantic port. The Chamarel, a French-built cable-laying ship, happened to be in dock, busy with preparations to sail, taking on immense coils of fiber-optic wire to string along the West African coast

The Emperor's New Road: How China's New Silk Road Is Remaking the World

by Jonathan Hillman  · 28 Sep 2020  · 388pp  · 99,023 words

Britain’s largest telegraph company manufactured two-thirds of the cables used during the nineteenth century and almost half thereafter. In 1896, there were thirty cable-laying ships in the world, and twenty-four were British owned.59 Britain’s monopolizing the expertise to lay cables meant that its rivals struggled to repair

Red November: Inside the Secret U.S.-Soviet Submarine War

by W. Craig Reed  · 3 May 2010  · 523pp  · 143,639 words

through the next leg in the journey. Tapping the cable at this point seemed most efficient in the early days but came with drawbacks. Soviet cable-laying ships usually pulled cables up for spot checks at repeater locations. Should they hoist up a tap along with the cable, that’d be bad. A

Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization

by Tim Queeney  · 11 Aug 2025  · 264pp  · 88,907 words

parted again. The cable armada had no choice but to return to port. In June 1858 a second attempt was made. This time the two cable-laying ships, the Niagara and Agamemnon, sailed to the midpoint between Ireland and Newfoundland, spliced the cable together, and then Niagara headed west and Agamemnon east, each

Kitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-Lucent

by Douglas Coupland  · 29 Sep 2014  · 124pp  · 36,360 words

Deep Sea and Foreign Going

by Rose George  · 4 Sep 2013  · 402pp  · 98,760 words

Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas

by John S. Burnett  · 1 Jan 2002  · 399pp  · 120,226 words

Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam

by David Hall and Fred Dibnah  · 1 Jan 2003  · 229pp  · 71,872 words