There are significant cable landing sites at Pacific City
and at
Nedonna Beach near Rockaway, Oregon, not far from here in
Portland.
They connect variously to Japan, Hawaii (and Australia),
Alaska
and California.
Quite a bit about these cable terminuses can be found at the
Oregon Fishermen's Cable Committee web site.
www.ofcc.com/cable_locations.htm
The OFCC worked closely from the mid-1990s onward with at
least
three cable operators, Tyco, Alaska Northstar and Southern
Cross
(which has the main US-Australia loops). They have a
special
agreement that basically amounts to a collaborative approach
to
actual or potential cable snags by trawlers.
The background makes for interesting reading. "The
Oregon
Fishermen's Undersea Cable Committee Agreement (Oregon
Fishermen's Agreement) is the first effort by two industries
to
discuss, describe and delineate their shared use of a
community
resource -- the ocean . . . The Oregon Fishermen's Agreement
is
intended to prevent damage to the fiber optic cable by
releasing
a Participating Fisherman from possible civil liability for
ordinary
negligence to WCICI/ANC/NorthStar Network under defined
circumstances rather than by relying on fear and
litigation."
www.ofcc.com/about_ofcc.htm
There's also an International Cable Protection Committee
with what
looks like a pretty complete listing of all active, retired
and planned
cable routes at:
www.iscpc.org
-- fh
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>
>Frank Coluccio wrote:
>>
>> Kidding aside, these "errors" are
actually intentional, and the publisher makes
>> no bones about it at the bottom of the page. See
disclaimer under the South
>> Atlantic Ocean:
>>
>> "Cable Routes do not represent all subsea
cable networks and do not reflect
>> actual location of cables"
>
>The relevant charts and or current navigation software
have the cables
>well marked because mariners have an obligation under
several
>international treaties (going back to 1884) not to hit
them... If you
>have the tools to go on a "fishing trip" you
have the tools to find the
>cable. If you obfuscate the location of cables I can
plead ignorance
>when I drag it up with my achor.
>
>http://mapserver.maptech.com/mapserver/nautical_s
ymbols/L4.html
>
>Like with back-hoeing through fiber, if you think
hitting a submarine
>cable is bad there's plenty other stuff out there that
has potentially
>disastrous consequences, gas lines, oil lines, well
heads, high voltage
>power lines, and of course lots of other things that
fall into the
>category of navigational hazards.
>
>joelja
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