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    I was curious about that too and had to look it up. Turns out it’s conceptually as simple as fixing an electric wire you’ve accidentally drilled through behind a wall: get access to the...

    I was curious about that too and had to look it up. Turns out it’s conceptually as simple as fixing an electric wire you’ve accidentally drilled through behind a wall: get access to the wire/cable, splice it, test it, and put everything back where it was. In the case of a deep sea cable, a boat positions itself above the break, pulls the cable up with a grapnel, splices it, tests it, and lowers it back into the sea.

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