Unused Cables

General Information

North Sea

Baltic Sea

Clyde Marine Region

Adriatic Sea

Eastern Mediterranean Sea

Unused Cables

File:Layer Unused Cables.png
Layer Info
Category	Activities
Sub-category	Cables and pipelines

Description

Many of the undersea cables are unused. One Dutch undersea cable salvage company estimates that of the 2.3 million km of cables that have been laid under the sea, 530.000 km are known to be out-of-service and not in use. Unused cables cause congestion on the seabed and make it difficult to lay new cables. Subsea infrastructure contains significant amounts of materials (plastics & metals), which rely on finite resources that are becoming increasingly scarce.

MSP Challenge

Unused Cables is a static data layer. They are point-by-point lines that you can draw in, edit or remove when making a plan.

Unused Cables create the following pressures on the ecosystem:

• Artificial Substrate

Return to cables and pipelines.

Types

Not applicable.

There are no types for this layer in the North Sea.

Metadata

Data Source

Rijkswaterstaat data drawn by hand to incorporate in a previous version of the MSP Challenge.

Original Title

Not available.

Description

Not available.

Creation Date

Not available (before 2016).

Methodology

Reprojected the data layer to Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area (EPSG:3035).

Not applicable.

This layer is not available in the Baltic Sea Edition.

Not applicable.

This layer is not available in the Clyde Marine Region Edition.

Not applicable.

This layer is not available in the Adriatic Sea Edition.

Not applicable.

This layer is not present in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.