Alaskan Submarine Cables: A Struggle with a Harsh Environment

ABSTRACT. The Alaskan cable system at one time included 86 submarine telegraph cables stretching from Puget Sound northward through the Alaskan Panhandle and thence westward into the Aleutian Island Arc. Cable failures in this system reveal dynamic natural forces affecting the sea floor. The cable f...

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Main Authors: Bruce C. Heezenl, G. Leonard Johnson
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.524.3034
http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic22-4-413.pdf