The 300-foot barge, built in Louisiana and tested in the Gulf of America to Nexans specifications, will be crewed by American mariners. The vessel will play a critical role in laying and burying the ...

The $350 million Hawaiki Transpacific Submarine Cable System has begun being laid, with the 15,000km subsea cable connecting Australia and New Zealand to Hawaii and the West Coast of the United States ...

Belgian marine contractor Jan De Nul has launched its newest cable laying vessel (CLV), the Fleeming Jenkin, at the CMHI Haimen shipyard in China, which has now entered the final phase of construction ...

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 ...

Prysmian Grouphas been awarded a €60 million (US$ 61.6 million) contract for laying submarine cables for the already secured Project Lighting HVDC 320 kV interconnection project in the UAE (awarded to ...

Historically, the design of high-voltage submarine cables includes steel tensile elements (armoring) stranded around the circumference of the power cable core. Typically, the steel tensile elements ...

It takes a plow the size of a small house, a robot the size of a truck and a purpose-built ship to install Google's latest oceanic infrastructure project -- a super-fast submarine Internet cable ...