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Dementoss If the cable is redundant and, going to be dismantled, why would breaking the optical fibres matter? They are probably most likely going to be melted down, to make new glass things, as it would surely be very difficult at best, to recover them intact from the cables, as they are dismantled. Reply
SkyBill40 I'm confused here: If the cable developed a fault deemed too expensive to repair, then what's the fuss in how it's coiled? If it's damaged already, what does it matter if the fiber inside is fractured or what not? Unless they're going to somehow try and repair the damaged section and repurpose the cable, I don't see why all the care needs to be applied. Reply
bit_user The article said: The cable itself has to be coiled by hand in the ship's hold, as fiber-optic cable can't be machine-coiled without risking damage to the glass fibers inside. OMG! Job-wise, this is probably like the modern equivalent to peeling potatoes in the ship's galley. Reply
DS426 Hand-coiled? Machinery coiled it in the first place from the factory and laid it on the ocean floor, so I'm pretty sure machinery would do just fine at coiling it up again. Not sure how the integrity of the glass matters now, anyways. Also, great mention on the upcoming copper shortage problem. I wonder what two letters are to blame for that?… Reply
passivecool But they can deconstruct the cable without damaging the glass fibers? Ans some idiot is going to say sure: i'm happy to save .002/m and refunction glass fibers that were under sea for 20 years? It is all to be recycled. Wonderful material to reuse, for sure. <Mod Edit> who wrote this slop? Reply
bit_user passivecool said: forced these companies to take responsibility and go clean up their own mess out of the ocean. They said they wanted to remove the cable so that another could reuse the same path. Reply
kanewolf SkyBill40 said: I'm confused here: If the cable developed a fault deemed too expensive to repair, then what's the fuss in how it's coiled? If it's damaged already, what does it matter if the fiber inside is fractured or what not? Unless they're going to somehow try and repair the damaged section and repurpose the cable, I don't see why all the care needs to be applied. The copper in the cable is the treasure. Bits of glass mixed in would contaminate the copper. Reply
ferdnyc kanewolf said: The copper in the cable is the treasure. Bits of glass mixed in would contaminate the copper. Exactly right. And more to the point: Disassembling the cable bundle into its constituent recyclable parts will be a lot easier, and a lot less dangerous for the people doing the work, if they're not constantly in danger of impaling their hands on broken shards of optical fiber. Reply
Robdon326 So in 1988 there was fiber optic on the ocean floor by Portugal? Yet it took till 2023 to become available on my street in Cleveland,OH. Sad Reply
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