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Shaping the future in tank gauging

Circle 258 on Reader Service Card are "external threats," in the form of fishermen's nets, dredging operations, pipeline installations and ship's anchors.

Depending on the surrounding traffic patterns and consistency of the seabed, the depth that a cable must be buried generally varies from 1.5 to 3 meters, and in special cases as deep as 10 meters. "After determining the customer's requirement, Tyco Survey Engineers go aboard a survey vessel to map the seabed along the entire cable route.

Routing and Cable Engineers select the best rout, most suitable cable type, and the slack required to enable the cable to lay flat on the seafloor."

Cuccio notes that each of the world's geographic regions poses its own partic- ular considerations, for example the soft sediments offshore China in the Hong

Kong region, which demand a cable to be installed 10 meters below the seabed. "Even at 10 meters burial the cable is still vulnerable to anchors from very large ships."

In addition to installation, Tyco

Telecommunications has a vibrant repair business. "We provide maintenance services to cables all over the world. If a cable is damaged, the cable repair ship is underway within 24 hours."

In depths to 2,000 ft., the company will often deploy a Remotely Operated

Vehicle (ROV) to identify the problem, cut the cable and attach a recovery line so that the cable can be brought to the surface for repair. In deeper waters, the ship deploys a grapnel to secure the cable and bring it to the surface for test- ing. While this technology is decidedly lower tech, it's rather effective given that the ship, using the latest in GPS and

DGPS technology, knows where to find

Frank Cuccio, Vice President Marine Services for Tyco Telecommunications.Tyco Reliance

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