Telephonecables Across The Ocean Floor

At depths of over 10 000 feet and covering 70 of the ocean floor abyssal plains are the largest habitat on earth.

Telephonecables across the ocean floor.

Depending on the equipment on board the cable ship the type of plough used the sea conditions and the ocean bed where the cable is being laid down cable ships can do anywhere from 100 150km of. The first submarine communications cables laid beginning in the 1850s carried telegraphy traffic establishing the first instant telecommunications links between continents such as the first transatlantic telegraph cable which became. A transatlantic telecommunications cable is a submarine communications cable connecting one side of the atlantic ocean to the other. Continuing your journey across the ocean basin you would descend the steep continental slope to the abyssal plain.

The first undersea telegraph cable was laid in 1850 between england and france. A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the sea bed between land based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea. In the 19th and early 20th centuries each cable was a single wire. In 1854 cyrus west field conceived the idea of the telegraph cable and secured a charter to lay a well insulated line across the floor of the atlantic ocean.

Shortly after the conclusion of world war ii sonar equipped vessels crisscrossed the oceans collecting ocean depth profiles of the seafloor beneath them. Late in the century all used optical fiber and most now use optical amplifiers. The survey data was used to create three dimensional relief maps of the ocean floor and by 1953 american oceanic cartographer marie tharp had created the first of several maps that revealed the presence of an underwater mountain range. After mid century coaxial cable came into use with amplifiers.

Sunlight does not penetrate to the sea floor making these deep dark ecosystems less productive than those along.