History of the Atlantic Cable & Submarine Telegraphy

	History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications from the first submarine cable of 1850 to the worldwide fiber optic network
CS Teneo by Bill Glover

CS TENEO

Built 1992 by Hijos de J. Barreras S.A., Vigo

Length 81 m Breadth 14 m Draught 5 m Gross tonnage 3051

Built for Telecommunicaciones Marinas S.A., Santa Cruz de Tenerife, for cable laying, repair and flexible pipe laying. Now operated by Tycom.

Fitted with two cable tanks, two bow sheaves and one stern sheave. Cable machinery is enclosed within the main cable deck.

CABLE WORK

1998	Azores Ring
1998	Sagres
2000	Atlantic 2

OTHER WORK

2007	Chartered to OHM (Offshore Hydrocarbon Mapping) for CSEM surveys (Controlled Source Electromagnetic surveys) for a period of five months. Carried out such surveys in Falkland Islands waters during March and scheduled to carry out similar work in NW Europe and West Africa.

Last revised: 2 October, 2007

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