The fish had the texture of underwater cable.
It was proposed as an alternate to long, deep underwater cables in the Atlantic.
On August 3, 1976, an underwater cable was cut, and all power to the island was lost.
The brothers continued to work on the conduction problem for underwater telegraphic cables.
Indeed, land-based lines fail far more often, as do underwater cables that carry telephone calls.
Smith developed a method for continually testing an underwater cable as it was being laid.
Concern over possible environmental impact of the buried underwater cables caused significant delay in operation.
Power delivery can require long underwater cables to reach land.
Gary explained about the underwater cables, running from one shore to the other.
The cost of the underwater cable could be as much as $200 million, according to some estimates.