And of course the obligatory video showing how they load a submarine cable onto a ship http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1JEuzBkOD8
They have $57 million worth of fairleads going into the ship and they're still using the thing with the two old car tires like an old baseball pitching machine?
From here on out, no more undersea cables. I won't have my data associating with riffraff of this sort. With such undignified origins, who knows what these cables might be capable of?
Now underground cables are a completely different breed entirely. Its installation is an altogether more dignified affair.
The soil is carefully tilled by refined gentlemen wielding silver spades and wearing freshly-pressed tuxedos. They carefully lay the cable down into its final resting place, whilst a full orchestra plays a requiem ever so softly in the background.