Abstract
Cooperative efforts by Japanese and U.S. researchers have been initiated to reuse a former submarine telephone cable (TPC-1, retired in 1991) for undersea scientific measurements. TPC-1 runs from Ninomiya, Japan to Guam, U.S.A., and has a length of ca. 2, 700km with a strike almost in the N-S direction. A prototype instrument package was successfully installed in northern Japan at depth of 100m using a similar coaxial cable. An instrumental package has been built and will be deployed near 30°N in 1996. The instrument has three component accelerometers with 24bit A/D converters, a hydrophone using analog telemetry, and a quartz thermometer and a quartz pressure sensor with a data length of 16bits. The data will be transmitted to the Ninomiya station in real-time. Other plans to reuse submarine telephone cables between Naoetsu, Japan and Nakhodka, Russia and between Okinawa, Japan and Guam are being considered.
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