For years, Hawaii politicians and government officials have espoused the idea of connecting all of the islands via undersea cables — creating a unified electric grid. 

The most immediate proposal is to connect Lanai and Molokai to Oahu for the 400-megawatt Big Wind project.  

An article in The NY Times provides a glimpse at what such an operation would look like.  It profiles a crew laying cable across the icy Hudson River over the holidays. 

Gigantic coils of cable and huge cranes are crammed into a ship where sailors and engineers manage the operation.  

The developer of the project, PowerBridge, is one of the developers that have expressed interest in bidding on the inter-island cable project in Hawaii. 

For divers, Hawaii’s waters would probably be a welcome change from the the cold and polluted Hudson River.

Check out the story here.