CABLE FAULT TRACED
Sealed Two Years By Air Bubble
(New Zealand Preu Association) AUCKLAND, July 3.
For two years g fault in a submarine cable carrying telegraph messages between Auckland and Norfolk Island, on the first stage of their journey to Australia, has been sealed by a bubble of air. Today engineers of the Post and Telegraph Department succeeded in tracing the fault and transmitted the location to the cable-laying vessel, the Recorder, which was en route for Auckland to collect cable for reconditioning. in Singapore, “The fault is approximately 18 miles but from Takapuna at a depth at 28 fathoms,” said Mr H. Fox, cable engineer in Auckland. “Despite the fault, we have kept toe cable open fbr traffic for over two years by putting in a sealer current which passes a bubble over the exposure. If you pass an electric current through water the water fizzes like lemonade. We get one of these bubbles to hang on to the exposed strands of copper.” ’ Early next week the Recorder will take up the cable on either side of the fault with a grapple and splice in a new piece of cable.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28938, 4 July 1959, Page 15
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