wiredinUSA October 2019

Ocean Networks has formed a new business unit, Submarine Cable Salvage, to repurpose out of service (OOS) submarine cable systems to serve ocean observatories. The new unit will acquire, repurpose and operate the connected observatories to help monitor the world’s oceans. Bandwidth requirements for the research and education (R&E) community are typically low. “Launching this initiative and supporting these communities is very important to submarine cable salvage, because of the significant impact it can have on gathering data from the ever-changing ocean environment,” said Scott Schwertfager, CEO, Ocean Networks. “With past tsunami events we can see the importance of monitoring our oceans, not only for disaster mitigation, but to capture environmental changes that will help the scientific community combat pollution in our oceans.” The new unit will be funded by a private investment group that focuses on disaster mitigation and oceanic preservation. “Pollution detection in our oceans is of critical importance,” added Frank DiMaria, EVP of business development at Ocean Networks. “This endeavor not only reduces the carbon footprint caused by the manufacturing of new cables, it also means fewer plastics are introduced into our oceans by repurposing the existing OOS cables.”

Cable recycling, subsea

wiredInUSA October 2019

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