Underwater 'electrical outlets' put in place for cabled ocean observatory project
Thursday, July 26, 2012 - 06:30
in Earth & Climate
(Phys.org) -- The first U.S. cabled ocean observatory reached a milestone on July 14 with the installation of a node 9,500 feet deep off the coast of Oregon. Like a giant electrical outlet on the seafloor that also provides Internet connectivity, the node was spliced into a network of cable segments totalling some 560 miles that were laid in the summer of 2011.