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Repairs begin on undersea cable
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Posted on 12/21/2008 6:41:36 PM PST by Cindy
A French crew has begun to repair two undersea cables in the Mediterranean that were severed on Friday, disrupting internet and phone communications.
A robot submarine will locate the ends of the cables on the sea bed and bring them to the surface to be re-connected.
They were cut somewhere between Sicily and Tunisia, probably by an anchor.
Egypt says it has been able to restore most of its communications by re-routing services, but other parts of the Middle East remain badly affected. Experts have warned that it may be days before the fault is fixed and that the knock-on effect could have serious repercussions on regional economies.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 200812; anchor; cables; communications; cutcables; egypt; internet; isolatedincidents; meditarraneansea; mediterranean; mediterraneansea; middleeast; phonecommunications; phones; sicily; siciy; tunisia; underseacable; underseacables; underwatercables
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posted on
12/21/2008 6:41:36 PM PST
by
Cindy
To: Jet Jaguar; Oorang
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posted on
12/21/2008 6:43:15 PM PST
by
Cindy
To: Cindy
Gilligan: Lady, listen! We’re stranded on a deserted island, and we found this telephone cable, and we tapped into it, and there’s no booth or coin slot or even a phone!!
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posted on
12/21/2008 6:46:28 PM PST
by
al baby
(Hi mom Mr. Obama, are you aware that Sarah Palin took on her own partyÂ’s establishment in Alaska a)
To: Cindy; ShadowAce
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posted on
12/21/2008 6:50:20 PM PST
by
tubebender
(Retirement...The art and science of Killing time before it Kills you...)
To: al baby
Damn, haven't been on Facebook in days...
To: Cindy
but other parts of the Middle East remain badly affected. If I were Achmadinajad (sp?) I wouldn't be sleeping too well.
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posted on
12/21/2008 7:08:50 PM PST
by
Go Gordon
To: billorites
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posted on
12/21/2008 7:49:49 PM PST
by
phoneman08
(Reagan conservative union member. Not as rare as you think!)
To: Cindy
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posted on
12/21/2008 7:59:52 PM PST
by
Oorang
(Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
To: Oorang
Thank you very much Oorang for pointing to this link.
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posted on
12/21/2008 8:13:30 PM PST
by
Cindy
To: Cindy; rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...
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posted on
12/22/2008 5:08:21 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Cindy
A French crew has begun to repair two undersea cables in the Mediterranean ... Ahhh, le Frenche ... but what if one of le diver's 3 month's socialist vacation is scheduled to begin while he is still in the middle of this ocean dive?? In that case I guess repair of the cable would just have to wait for a few months.
What is le beeg hurry, anyway??
To: Cindy
A robot submarine will locate the ends of the cables on the sea bed and bring them to the surface to be re-connected.Geez, they must lay it with a lot of slack.
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posted on
12/22/2008 3:12:12 PM PST
by
Still Thinking
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: Still Thinking
That was one of my first thoughts too, after reading the article.
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posted on
12/22/2008 4:28:28 PM PST
by
Cindy
To: Cindy
I wonder if they lay it in a zigzag or wavy pattern so there is excess at all points in case of a break like this one.
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posted on
12/22/2008 4:48:01 PM PST
by
Still Thinking
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: Still Thinking
I don’t know Still Thinking.
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posted on
12/22/2008 5:18:14 PM PST
by
Cindy
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