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2. Submarine communications cable - Wikipedia

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   Submarine communications cable. A cross section of the shore-end of a modern submarine communications cable. 1 – Polyethylene. 2 – Mylar tape. 3 – Stranded steel wires. 4 – Aluminium water barrier. 5 – Polycarbonate. 6 – Copper or aluminium tube. 7 – Petroleum jelly.

3. 2008 submarine cable disruption - Wikipedia

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   4 Feb - SEA-ME-WE-4 near Penang, Malaysia. The 2008 submarine cable disruption refers to three separate incidents of major damage to submarine optical communication cables around the world. The first incident caused damage involving up to five high-speed Internet submarine communications cables in the Mediterranean Sea and Middle East from ...

4. List of United States Coast Guard cutters - Wikipedia

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   175' Keeper-class coastal buoy tender (WLM) USCGC Joshua Appleby (WLM-556), a 175' USCG coastal buoy tender. USCGC Ida Lewis (WLM-551) USCGC Katherine Walker (WLM-552) USCGC Abbie Burgess (WLM-553) USCGC Marcus Hanna (WLM-554) USCGC James Rankin (WLM-555) USCGC Joshua Appleby (WLM-556) USCGC Frank Drew (WLM-557)

5. Submarine power cable - Wikipedia

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   A submarine power cable is a transmission cable for carrying electric power below the surface of the water. [1] These are called "submarine" because they usually carry electric power beneath salt water (arms of the ocean, seas, straits, etc.) but it is also possible to use submarine power cables beneath fresh water (large lakes and rivers ).

6. Heritage-class cutter - Wikipedia

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   The Heritage-class cutters are the newest class of cutter in the USCG, bridging the capabilities of the Legend and Sentinel-class cutters. The design is based on Vard Marine's VARD 7 110 offshore patrol vessel design. [8] The cutters will be classified to American Bureau of Shipping Naval Vessel Rules with USCG addendum and will be built with a ...

7. Transatlantic communications cable - Wikipedia

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   A transatlantic telecommunications cable is a submarine communications cable connecting one side of the Atlantic Ocean to the other. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, each cable was a single wire. After mid-century, coaxial cable came into use, with amplifiers. Late in the 20th century, all cables installed use optical fiber as well as ...

8. Oceanic (unfinished ship) - Wikipedia

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   Oceanic. (unfinished ship) Oceanic was the planned name of an unfinished ocean liner that was partially built by Harland and Wolff for the White Star Line. It would have been the third ship bearing the name Oceanic, after the one of 1870 and the one of 1899. It was envisaged in 1926, with the idea of modernizing the transatlantic service of the ...

9. Transatlantic telegraph cable - Wikipedia

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   Transatlantic telegraph cables were undersea cables running under the Atlantic Ocean for telegraph communications. Telegraphy is an obsolete form of communication, and the cables have long since been decommissioned, but telephone and data are still carried on other transatlantic telecommunications cables. The Atlantic Telegraph Company led by ...