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Mighty Ships
2008 · TV series · documentary · 60 min episodes · 10 seasons
Mighty Ships is a documentary television program produced by Exploration Production Inc. in Canada. It is aired on Discovery Channel Canada and also broadcast around the world. The series follows various types of vessels on a journey, showing viewers how the ship and its crew operates. This series was started after the success of a one off special on the Discovery Channel entitled Mighty Ships: Queen Mary 2.
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I saw an episode of "Mighty Ships" just this weekend, which followed such a ship around as they were working on splicing one of these cables.
Very cool stuff.
I really enjoyed an episode of Mighty Ships (episode 1:7 -just looked it up) showing just how hard laying cables is. A surprise to me is they carry quite high voltage to power seabed repeaters. It shows them at one point trying to find a short in the massive cable.
No mention of submarine cables is complete without reference to Neal Stephenson's excellent feature for Wired [0] - 'Mother Earth, Mother Board' in which he tags along as an intercontinental cable is laid down.
Also, Discovery Networks did an episode of its 'Mighty Ships' series on a Tyco Reliance class cable ship - quite interesting if you can find it, although a bit short on nerdy detail, as one would expect.)
[0] https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
There's a TV show called "Mighty Ships" that profiles various larger ships (mostly commercial, though some passenger or military). One episode focuses on the Tyco Resolute, a cable laying ship:
http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/mighty-ships/tyco-resolute/809/3399767
The full version used to be on YouTube.