IT International Telecom Canada Inc (to quote their website) "is a privately owned subsea network integrator that designs, installs, and maintains marine cable systems. IT is an ISO-certified company, with locations in Barbados, Montreal, Halifax and marine operations on the east and west coast of North America."
The company's marine base in Halifax is at Pier 9A, and ships of its fleet can be seen there refitting or preparing for submarine cable repair or cable laying projects. Aside from administrative space in the former transit shed on the pier, there is storage and maintenance space for specialized equipment and submarine cable. A moveable bridge is used to transfer cable from the shed to cable ships alongside.
The Barbados flag IT Intrepid arrived in Halifax October 23 from Florida and loaded cable for its next project. Since that project is in Canada, IT applied for a temporary coasting license which allows the foreign ship to operate in Canadian waters when there is no suitable Canadian ship available for the work. The license has apparently been granted and the ship sailed today for the Gulf of St.Lawrence.
It will lay a 160 km long fire optic cable from Sept-Iles to Ste-Anne-des-Monts. The work includes trenching, laying and burying the cable itself (all in one operation), using the ship's special Subsea Cable Plough. As the name implies the Sunoque III *cable is the third in a series of transGulf cables. Reports indicate that they are co-owned by Telus and Hydro-Quebec, and Bell has a right of use.
I have described the now legendary IT Intrepid on this blog several times over the years, but the April 27, 2013 post is the most complete.
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* SU = sud (south)
NO = nord (north)
QUE =Québec
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