The world’s first transatlantic fiber-optic cable is being ripped up after 37 years on the sea floor — TAT-8 to be removed after entering service in 1988, broke in 2002
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Subsea Environmental Services is currently hauling TAT-8 off the seabed near Portugal, more than two decades after it was decommissioned.
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