Story: Engineering on the sea floor

More links and websites

• A powerful link: the Cook Strait cable

  This technical history website gives information about the laying of the Cook Strait power cable in 1965.

• Seaworks

  Seaworks monitors underwater cables in Cook Strait and elsewhere. Click ‘Case studies’ for articles about their work.

More suggestions and sources

• Airey, Elisabeth. The taming of distance: New Zealand’s first international telecommunications. Wellington: Dunmore, 2005.
• Fried, Paul, and others. The story of Maui. Wellington: Maui Development, 1979.
• Harris, T. F. W. Greater Cook Strait: form and flow. Wellington: DSIR Marine and Freshwater, 1990.