The Hypnotic Process of Recycling Million $ Underwater Cables

Underwater Cables are everywhere and an essential element of our modern society, in particular of our connected life. But have you ever wondered how these submarine cables were recycled ? Today on the Frame let's explore this fascinating process.

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about 10 seconds of info on underwater cable.. The rest is just filler about copper.. Save your time and skip this

[joshp]

Don’t know where you got your information but when copper is too expensive for large scale electrical applications, generally it’s aluminum that’s used not steel. It conducts electricity far better than steel and steel actually has far worse corrosion resistance than copper

[scroungasworkshop]

My prediction is that eventually old rubbish dumps will be mined for their resources. Up until quite modern times everything went to land fill, cars, machinery, factory waist, not much at all was recycled. By the time metal prices become high enough to make it worthwhile all the biodegradable stuff will have been broken down into dirt leaving mainly glass, rubber, plastic and the valuable metals. Not much iron of course but a lot of the non ferrous metals including gold, silver and copper. Thousands of car batteries were dumped. Gold? Tons of old furniture was dumped and a lot from deceased estates some of which would have had gold jewellery hidden in them. I’m old enough to remember seeing these things being tossed. There were no gates or fences people were free to scavenge the dumps and it was amazing the stuff that would turn up. That certainly was a different era.

[mveidemanis]

Did not catch how underwater cable recycling turned into review of steel products, but... for God's sake - it is CONCRETE not CEMENT

[bob]

During the Cold War, we put listening devices under the Soviet cables in the North Sea. The Soviets would lift the cable to inspect it, see no damage or tampering, then lay it back on the listening device. We had ears on their northern fleet for like 15 years!

[ericksonmontalbo]

cable are life time materials need of people in this world.

[jamesdurwoodchance]

Clear ice cube and have a color changing led light underneath

[DeviloftheHelll]

get the homeless and those who dont ever want to work, drug addicts and criminals, to the landfills and start separating waste.

[moquinlocuaz]

There's your satellites communication. It's all cables under the ocean 😂😂😂😂😂

[shauncorless]

In around 1890 s the British empire had cable from lands end to every continent tens of thousands of miles, and you can go down to sea and see them still going into the surf, why don't they recycle those 🤔

[pairojeans]

A whole lot of wrong information, filler that has nothing to do with underwater cables. So I give this video a thumbs down for accuracy and content. Try again!

[skelafeti]

I thought I was going to watch the process of recycling underwater cables, not a infomercial on the different companies that work copper

[johnpartridge]

Every item of manufacture that Humans make should be recyclable & there should be no waste, what is this Planet going to be like for our Children & Grand Children etc unless People face up to the problem of WASTE.

[rjohnson]

Hey Provider, the narrator is terrible. The sign songy voice of the girl reading is like nails on a chalk board. Cannot bare to listen.

[mistercohaagen]

@5:50 Yeah solder that heatsink you ruddy pillock.

[GSSurry]

The background sound makes the documentry impossible to watch for people with hearing impairment.

[shadetreewrenching]

So almost zero content of actual underwater cables being recycled. Thanks for wasting my time.

[marcobrian]

And this is why off shore "green energy" is not so

[michaelrapley]

What a load of rubbish..
The cost of retrieving cables from the bottom of the ocean would outweigh it's value

[rosewhite---]

1:35 'inculcated' - she means incorporated.