{"id":14470,"date":"2024-02-23T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.telegeography.com\/flashback-friday-submarine-cable-repair-in-the-1980s"},"modified":"2024-02-23T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T13:07:00","slug":"flashback-friday-submarine-cable-repair-in-the-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=14470","title":{"rendered":"Flashback Friday: Submarine Cable Repair in the 1980s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hs-featured-image-wrapper\">\n <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.telegeography.com\/flashback-friday-submarine-cable-repair-in-the-1980s\" title=\"\" class=\"hs-featured-image-link\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.telegeography.com\/hubfs\/2024\/Blog%20Assets\/AdobeStock_245245589-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Flashback Friday: Submarine Cable Repair in the 1980s\" class=\"hs-featured-image\" style=\"width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\"> <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve read over our <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.telegeography.com\/submarine-cable-faqs-frequently-asked-questions\">Submarine Cable Frequently Asked Questions<\/a>, you know that cable faults are common. On average, there are over 100 each year.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, as a society heavily dependent on these cables, we&#8217;ve gotten quite good at repairing them.<\/p>\n<p>But what was the repair process like a few decades ago? How were we fixing cables back in the era of the Walkman?<\/p>\n<p>Time for a trip down memory lane.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/track.hubspot.com\/__ptq.gif?a=594292&amp;k=14&amp;r=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.telegeography.com%2Fflashback-friday-submarine-cable-repair-in-the-1980s&amp;bu=https%253A%252F%252Fblog.telegeography.com&amp;bvt=rss\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" style=\"min-height:1px!important;width:1px!important;border-width:0!important;margin-top:0!important;margin-bottom:0!important;margin-right:0!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-top:0!important;padding-bottom:0!important;padding-right:0!important;padding-left:0!important; \"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve read over our Submarine Cable Frequently Asked Questions, you know that cable faults are common. On average, there are over 100 each year.<br \/>\nOf course, as a society heavily dependent on these cables, we&#8217;ve gotten quite good at repairi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":14471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2309,5027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-network","category-submarine-cables"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14472,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14470\/revisions\/14472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}