September 16, 2004
Shaw to Orcas Fiber Optic Cable Installation

Orcas Landing
Beach Preparation and Cable Pull

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Left to Right: Dick Billings, Richard Lartz, Kerry Anderson, Ron Cross, Roger Sandwith, Danny Foussard, Mike Hinton & Dan Watters
Left: CMI Beach-Master Dave Smith with OPALCO's Mike Hinton.

Above: Richard Lartz and Dan Watters

Left: White duct shows where the salvaged cable was cut. Next to it is an existing 69kV run with iron cable protectors.

Above: Lunch time for OPALCO's Beach-Master

Above Left: A diver fishes a pulling cable and eye through an existing duct installed under the existing cables.

Above, Left & Bottom left: The beach crew lines up the cable on rollers. A signal is given and the OPALCO crew starts the puller 800 feet above at the Orcas Terminal site.

Below: The cable is lubricated to minimize stress during pulling. To the left of the crew are the iron cable protector for the new cable. To the right of the crew, in the white conduit is the cable that was cut and retrieved.