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An Undersea cable or Submarine communications cable is a cable that is laid in the sea or in waterways. Usually such cables either carry electricity or they are used for telecommunication. Cables longer than about 70 kilometres (43 mi) use direct current, because the loss is too big with alternating current. Such cables are also built in a very rugged way.

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  • British & Irish Magnetic Telegraph Co. Limited 3 shilling stamp c. 1862 remaindered without control number

    A telegraph stamp of the British & Irish Magnetic Telegraph Co. Limited (c. 1862).

  • Telegraph QE3 19

    Operators in the submarine telegraph cable room at the GPO's Central Telegraph Office in London c. 1898

  • 1901 Eastern Telegraph cables

    Eastern Telegraph Company network in 1901. Dotted lines across the Pacific indicate then-planned cables laid in 1902–03.

  • Bundesarchiv Bild 102-01035, New York, Verlegen von Unterseekabel

    Landing of an Italy-USA cable (4,704 nautical miles long), on the Rockoway beach, New-York, January 1925.

  • Submarine Telephone Cables PICT8182 1

    Submarine communication cables crossing the Scottish shore at Scad Head on Hoy, Orkney.

  • World map of submarine cables
  • Modern fiber-optic cable around Africa's coast.

    A map of active and anticipated submarine communications cables servicing the African continent.

  • Submarine cable repair animation

    An animation showing a method used to repair submarine communications cables.

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