. Bell telephone magazine . ea water at KeyWest. Many of these operationswere carried on both day and laying of the long sections fromHavana to the final splice points, forexample, each required about 24hours of continuous work from dawnto dawn. Five splices, each takingfrom 4 to 6 hours, were made on theship. It is a tribute to the accuracy ofthe engineering, navigation, andplacement work that the final lengthof each submarine cable varied lessthan one-fifth of a mile from thelength estimated and ordered nearlytwo years ago. Tests at Every Step During the cable-placing operations,bo
. Bell telephone magazine . ea water at KeyWest. Many of these operationswere carried on both day and laying of the long sections fromHavana to the final splice points, forexample, each required about 24hours of continuous work from dawnto dawn. Five splices, each takingfrom 4 to 6 hours, were made on theship. It is a tribute to the accuracy ofthe engineering, navigation, andplacement work that the final lengthof each submarine cable varied lessthan one-fifth of a mile from thelength estimated and ordered nearlytwo years ago. Tests at Every Step During the cable-placing operations,both the Key West and Havana tele-phone offices were manned by severalengineers, in addition to the regularpersonnel. Telephone connectionswere also maintained with the shipby radio and, whenever practicable,through the cable sections. Before,during, and after each cable-layingstep, electrical tests were made bythe testing staffs of both the ship andthe Bell Telephone Laboratories. 1950 New Voiceways under the Gulf Stream 111. Some iy miles of spare sections of the cables are being unloaded from the ship at KeyWest into the concrete tank at the right, for preservation in sea water There is something terribly final inplacing anything at the bottom of theocean, and it is good to know that allis well while corrections can still bemade without great effort. It would be untrue to say that alloperations proceeded without dif-ficulty. Fortunately, only relativelyminor mishaps occurred—none whichwould affect the over-all success ofthe project. During the stress oflong hours, such difficulties as adrifted buoy, a loose connection, ora failure of radio communication be-cause of static loom rather large,until found and cleared. In all ot thecable-laving operations, the safety ofthe personnel was guarded and no ac-cidents to workers occurred. Our new deep-sea repeatered cableswere placed in regular commercialservice at the end of June. Thus,almost thirty years after the firstvoice communic
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