Fish Reef Project creates working relationship with the vital marine cable industry to help protect underwater telecom and power line assets.

Fish Reef Project attends ICPC conference creating a working relationship with the vial marine cable industry to help protect underwater telecom and power line assets.

“Society should know that most of our daily data is transmitted not via satellite – but rather by very thin marine fiber-optic cables spanning the globe that need to be looked after and protected” – Chris Goldblatt, Founder, Fish Reef Project

For more on the subject:

Submarine cables and the oceans: connecting the world Adobe Acrobat Document (.pdf) – 2.62 MB
A report prepared in collaboration with UNEP (United Nations Environmental Programme), which is designed to provide an objective, factual description of the submarine cable industry and the interaction of submarine telecommunications with the marine environment.
Source: iscpc.org/publications/

Loss Prevention Bulletin – Damage to Submarine Cables Caused by Anchors Adobe Acrobat Document (.pdf) – 82 KB
A bulletin explaining the risk to cables from vessels having their anchor deployed while under way.

Source: iscpc.org/publications/