Maintenance Zones

SEAIOCMA – South East Asia and Indian Ocean Cable Maintenance Agreement

As with any cable maintenance agreement Global Marine, provide SEAIOCMA with repair, reinstatement and preventative maintenance of scheduled cables. Cable maintenance is provided from beach joint to beach joint. Global Marine has depots around the globe for storage of spare cable, plant and joint kits.

Cable Retriever is dedicated to SEAIOCMA and is based at Subic Bay in the Philippines. Batangas Cable Depot also in the Philippines provides support services.

NAZ – North American Zone

The maintenance zone covers an area from the Bering Sea and Alaska in the North to the Equator in the South and from the Americas to approximately 167º West Longitude. Wave Venture is 100% committed to NAZ and operates from a base port of Victoria, Canada.

ACMA – Atlantic Cable Maintenance Agreement

ACMA’s sole purpose is for the cable repair and maintenance in the Atlantic, there are 61 members drawn from the telecoms, power cable and the oil & gas industries.

Wave Sentinel and Pacific Guardian are dedicated to ACMA.  Wave Sentinel has a split base spending six months in both Portland, UK and Bermuda.  Pacific Guardian is based in Curacao in the Netherlands Antilles.

PIOCMA – Pacific and Indian Ocean Cable Mutual Agreement

PIOCMA agreement comprises of NAZ, Yokohama Zone and SEAIOCMA agreements. It provides mutual support post any natural disasters providing risk management solutions to consortium members. The last time PIOCMA was invoked, was during the Taiwan earthquake of 2006 that slowed internet traffic dramatically.  More recently PIOCMA was on alert following the Japanese Tsunami in 2011 although was not called upon.