long range communications device placed underwater, often intercontinental
A cross section of the shore-end of a modern submarine communications cable. 1 – Polyethylene 2 – Mylar tape 3 – Stranded steel wires 4 – Aluminium water barrier 5 – Polycarbonate 6 – Copper or aluminium tube 7 – Petroleum jelly 8 – Optical fibers Submarine cables are laid using special cable layer ships, such as the modern René Descartes [fr], operated by Orange Marine.
A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the seabed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).