It could be close to a week until repairs are finished.
The Cable Innovator at work in Salisbury Sound 25 miles north of Sitka Monday morning. The British-flagged Cable Innovator arrived at the site of the break over the weekend.
“The fiber repair shift then mobilized to get to Sitka and it arrived on site over the weekend,” Nelson said. “The crew aboard the Cable Innovator is actively engaged in efforts to repair the damaged fiber optic cable right now, so they are on site, actively working.” “It’s rare for a fiber optic cable to break. There can be lots of reasons that this can happen, and we are just unsure at this time as to what the exact cause of the break was,” Nelson said.
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