Submarine cable burying system with guiding equipment

Burying submarine cables in the sea bottom is indispensable to protect them from injury arising from fishing activities and anchors. The Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation has been making continuous efforts to develop a method for burying submarine cables and has recently completed a new system called the "towed attached guiding equipment simultaneous laying-burying system". This paper describes this system and outlines the installation work between Matsuyama and Kure which was recently completed by this system.