The technology of undersea communications, from stranded-wire telegraph cables in the 1850s to fiber-optic cables at the end of the twentieth century, and its s

As ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore communications grow increasingly important to long and short term cruising, Mike Harris, a veteran sailor and the author of Un

Description This book provides a detailed overview of the evolution of undersea communications systems, with emphasis on the most recent breakthroughs of optica

In our "wireless" world it is easy to take the importance of the undersea cable systems for granted, but the stakes of their successful operation are huge, as t

There are many things and services in our everyday life that we take for granted, and telecommunications is one of them. We surf the internet, send emails to fr