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Tyco Resolute: The Cable-Laying Ship That Keeps The World Connected
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Tyco Resolute: The Cable-Laying Ship That Keeps The World Connected

46 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Nearly all intercontinental internet traffic travels through cables no thicker than a garden hose, laid across ocean floors by specialized ships like the Tyco Resolute. This film follows the vessel and its crew through the process of planning, loading, and burying fiber-optic cable, from route surveys that avoid shipwrecks and fault lines to the plow systems that dig trenches into the seabed. Engineers and crew explain how a single cable fault can cut off connectivity for entire regions, and how repair ships locate and splice breaks thousands of meters underwater. The film shows the cable-loading process in the ship's massive tanks, the tensioning machinery that feeds line overboard at a steady pace, and the remotely operated vehicles used for deep-sea repairs. It treats the Resolute as one link in a global infrastructure most people never think about, tracing how a handful of ships and their specialized crews keep undersea networks running. The scale of the operation, from tank to trench to splice, is the film's real subject.