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

Thales Venturer
by Bill Glover

THALES VENTURER

Built in Norway in 1986 and named Seis Venturer the vessel was purchased in 2004 by the Thales group and renamed Thales Venturer. Used for survey work for the offshore gas and oil industry and also carries out cable route surveys.

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