BT is laying a fiber-optic submarine cable between Orkney and the Scottish mainland. The 70-kilometer cable will run from Skaill Bay in Orkney, under the Pentland Firth, to Dunnet Bay, about five miles east of Thurso. BT has awarded the contract to independent marine engineering company Global Marine Systems, which began installing the cable last week. Weather permitting, the work should take around three weeks. Global Marine’s cableship CS Sovereign is using its submersible plough and remotely operated vehicle systems to install the cable up to one meter below the seabed.
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