Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

Sat Feb 2 16:38:14 UTC 2008

> And AFAIK not all kilometers of cables lie on the ocean floor; if the
> ocean has high depth on a given part of the cable route, the cable
> simply floats on the water on that run. It's just a matter of having
> enough pressure to lift it up.

and for the difficult parts, they pump helium in and get it above flight 
paths.

randy