On Feb. 10 last year, the cable ship CS Dependable appeared off the coast of the island of Diego Garcia, an Indian Ocean atoll that’s home to a discreet U.S. naval base. Over the next month, the ...
Italian power cable making and installation group Prysmian Group has chosen the name Monna Lisa for the new 171-meter cable-laying vessel that is currently under construction in Romania. The vessel is ...
Belgian ship owner Jan De Nul Group (JDN) has offered a deal to Chinese yard China Merchants Heavy Industry Haimen to build cable-laying vessel. The vessel, named Fleeming Jenkin, will serve the ...
The First Attempts to Lay the Transatlantic Cable (1857-1858): The first attempts to lay the transatlantic cable from Ireland to Newfoundland were fraught with bad luck and repeated setbacks. Even ...