Convention for the Protection of Submarine Telegraph Cables
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The Convention for the Protection of Submarine Telegraph Cables is a multilateral treaty that was signed in 1884 in order to protect
submarine communications cable A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the sea bed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea. The first submarine communications cables laid beginning in the 1850s carried tel ...
s that had begun to be laid in the 19th century.


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The convention made it a punishable offence to damage submarine communications cables. In addition, all ships were to be regulated to staying a distance of away from
cable laying ship A cable layer or cable ship is a deep-sea ship, vessel designed and used to lay underwater cables for Submarine communications cable, telecommunications, Submarine power cable, electric power transmission, military, or other purposes. Cable ship ...
s when in operation. Any ship that accidentally hooked a cable and sacrificed its fishing nets to avoid breaking it would be compensated for the lost equipment.


State parties

The convention has been signed, ratified, and acceded to by the following parties. A number of
dependent territories A dependent territory, dependent area, or dependency (sometimes referred as an external territory) is a territory that does not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a sovereign state, yet remains politically outside the controlli ...
ratified the convention or had the convention extended to them. For states that were not original signatories, the date they accepted the convention is indicated.


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