Mike Morecombe has 30+ years of experience in the cable industry, having spent most of that time focused on undersea cable marine engineering. He has been a consultant since 2010 and joined DRG recently to serve as the Marine Working Group chair for a major, new transpacific system now in construction. Before then, Mike provided marine expertise for a spectrum of global projects, including Tata Gulf, WACS, ASC, Vanuatu and MYTHIC. He retired from Cable and Wireless in 2010, as a Principal Engineer on their marine team, culminating over 20 years of service. Mike also has extensive project management and factory QA experience. Uniquely, Mike was involved in the redeployment and recommissioning of recovered/refurbished undersea systems.