Red Seas. C/S Teliri operates laying operations, mainly around the Mediterranean Basin. C/S Antonio Meucci conducts submarine systems inspections, ROV operations and maintenance of telecommunications cables. C/S Pierre de Fermat maintains submarine cables in the Atlantic and Northern Europe zone. Elettra operates two cable ships, the Certamen and the Teliri, under the Italian flag, and owns a cable depot in Catania. In order to protect, watch and repair intercontinental damaged links, Orange Marine, through its subsidiary SIMEC, designs, manufactures and operates submarine vehicles (ROV and ploughs) used to carry out assignments: The Hector ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle), which is remotely controlled from the ship via its umbilical cable, can lift the cable, hold it and cut it using articulated arms. Elodie, the plough, is used to bury the cable at significant depths. Key figures more than of submarine cables laid in oceans, of which have been buried by Orange Marine ploughs about 150 repair operations between 2006 and 2010 four operation zones: ACMA (Atlantic and Northern Europe), MECMA (Mediterranean, Black Sea, Red Sea), Southern Hemisphere (West, South and East Africa) and the Indian Ocean in the past 40 years cable ship Chamarel, alias Vercors, laid of submarine cables See also Orange S.A. Submarine communications cable Cable layer External links Orange Marine presentation on Orange website Presentation of Orange Marine's maintenance activity International Cable Protection Committee ICPC Newsletter for the whole industry involved in the submarine cable market France Telecom-Orange-led LION2 submarine cable system is ready for service - FierceTelecom France Telecom buys Telecom Italia undersea cable subsidiary Bibliography Du Morse à l'Internet - 150 ans de télécommunication par câbles sous-marins by Rene Salvador, Gérard Fouchard and Yves Rolland, 2006, Orange S.A. Telecommunications companies of France