Show repairing sea cables the captain of a cable ship recently reported that he had repaired a break in a submarine cable off the coast of south africa with little or no difficulty however 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 by means of special in instruments st where the cable is broken 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 as often buried in the mud is hooked hooded it is immediately pulled to the surface and repaired |