Divers adjusting Tow Line on C & W Sea Plow

COMM 8.023.tif

Title

Divers adjusting Tow Line on C & W Sea Plow

Subject

Sea Plow
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Description

Underwater photograph of deep-sea divers adjusting tow line on sea low. The low, designed by Bell Telephone Laboratories to bury undersea telephone cable below the ocean floor, was used by American Telephone and Telegraph Company's Long Lines Department to bury the shore-end sections of two transatlantic cables off the coast of New Jersey.

Date

1968-04

Rights

CABLE & WIRELESS LTD

Identifier

COMM 8.023

Period Costume

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