MARINE SURVEYING
WORK IN COOK STRAIT ROUTE FOR NEW CABLE Over 200 soundings will have to be taken before the marine survey of the route for a new telephone cable across Cook Strait will be completed. The task is in the hands of the officers and crew of the naval vessel Wakakura, which has special sounding equipment, and the work is expected to take 14 working days. The new cable is of the single-core high-frequency type and »vill lie along a route 40 miles long from Lyall Bay to the mouth of Blind River, Marlborough. The greatest depth is 1200 ft., but two " deeps " occur and detailed survey of the vicinity will be necessary. Soundings at half-mile intervals are at present being taken along the proposed route, and later two parallel lines half a mile north and south of it will be surveyed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22580, 19 November 1936, Page 13
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