History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications
from the first submarine cable of 1850 to the worldwide fiber optic network

MV Discovery
by Bill Glover

MV DISCOVERY

Commissioned in 1986 by BT Marine; work was stopped for a time after the downturn in oil prices. Restarted, and the vessel was built by Van der Giessen-De Noord. Used as a dive support and cable/pipelaying vessel, mainly for the offshore gas and oil industries.

Research Material Needed

The Atlantic Cable website is non-commercial, and its mission is to make available on line as much information as possible.

You can help - if you have cable material, old or new, please contact me. Cable samples, instruments, documents, brochures, souvenir books, photographs, family stories, all are valuable to researchers and historians.

If you have any cable-related items that you could photograph, copy, scan, loan, or sell, please email me: billb@ftldesign.com