CS Vercors
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| Owner: | France Telecom Marine |
| Builder: | Societé Nouvelle des Ateliers et Chantiers du Havre |
| Completed: | 1974–1975 |
| Renamed: | 2002 |
| Identification: | IMO number: 9005869, MMSI number: 645167000 |
| Notes: | Formerly Vercors |
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| Tonnage: | 5,886 GT–8,575 GT |
| Length: | 135 m (442 ft 11 in) |
| Beam: | 18 m (59 ft 1 in) |
The CS Chamarel, originally CS Vercors was a cable layer owned by France Telecom Marine, laying submarine communications cables around the world. It was built in 1974 and destroyed by a fire in August 2012. As the Vercors, the ship laid cables on and between all continents except Antarctica, including numerous trans-Atlantic cables and the first ever Israeli-made cable, and set the record for the deepest submarine buried cable lay in 2000. The ship was badly damaged by a fire in August 2012.
The Vercors was built in 1975 by the Societé Nouvelle des Ateliers et Chantiers du Havre. It started operation at La Seyne-sur-Mer. In the 1970s it laid cables to and from France, including the now-decommissioned ANNIBAL, except ANTINEA, which stretched from Morocco to the Ivory Coast through Senegal.
In the 1980s the Vercors laid the ATLANTIS between Portugal and Senegal, TAT-7 and TAT-8, and others across most continents. In 1991 it deployed EMOS-1, the first Israeli-made submarine communications cable. Other projects in the 1990s included TASMAN 2 (1992; Australia – New Zealand), TAT-9 (1992; Trans-Atlantic), PacRimEast (1993; Hawaii – New Zealand), SEA ME WE 2 (1994; Southeast Asia – Middle East – Western Europe), Columbus II (1994; Trans-Atlantic), TAT-12 and TAT-13 (1995), SEA ME WE 3 (1995), ARIANE-2 (1995; France–Greece), ITUR (1996; Italy–Turkey–Ukraine), KAFOS (1996; Turkey–Bulgaria), TAGIDE-2 (1996; France–Portugal), ALETAR (1997; Egypt–Syria), BERYTAR (1997; Lebanon–Syria) and others.
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