Gluing the cable back together? If it was only that easy, find one end, cleave and join on a length of cable, pay out whilst finding second cable end, and the correct one in this case, lift cleave and joint to new length, drop back onto seabed if deep, bury if 'shallow'. If Alcatel cables add several days for delays in Alcatel's 'inspector' to join ship, cleaning all the tar and bitumen out of the cable so you can actually joint it and reseal the core by injection molding polyethylene around the core, that's after trying to 'weld' the fiber cores together, a 10 percent chance of success with each individual core with Alcatel's manual fusion splicers their inspector insists you use is considered to be good, instead of the automated Japanese fusion splicers with a 99 percent first time success rate. Yes I worked in that 'industry', and its hard, dirty and dangerous work.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
