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Show Repairing Sea Cables The captain of a cable ship recently re-cently reported that he had repaired re-paired a break in a submarine cable ca-ble off the coast of South Africa with little or no difficulty. However, How-ever, even if all goes well, the job of locating and repairing an ocean cable seems intricate and arduous to a landlubber. Electricians on shore first determine de-termine by means of special instruments in-struments where the cable is broken. bro-ken. Then the cable ship steams to the spot. The ship lowers a grappling hook and steams slowly back and forth at right angles to the path of the cable. When the cable, which is often buried in the mud, is hooked, it is immediately pulled to the surface and repaired. |