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  The point was that while the ship was in port taking on
  cable, it was fully manned anyway. Crews need something 
  to do - so might as well stow cable.
Right, but if they could take on cable faster couldn't they get under way faster? Four weeks to load a ship sounds like a long time.


I guess that depends on how fast you can make the cable; I have no idea how that pans out - but the cable is put onto the vessel straight from the production line (which, I guess, may have had its speed optimised to the speed at which crews can reliably put down cable.)

I am now curious; I'll fire off an email with a few questions to my liaison at TE SubCom. With any luck, answers arrive in time to be relevant to this thread.




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