D’Amico so described the difficulties they encountered: bad weather, the imperfect action of some equipment, mostly of the brakes, which had to calibrate the descent of the cable in the sea, had as a consequence that the cable, once in deep sea and dragged by its own weight, hastily descended into the sea, and the brakes that were not able to hold it, so that the cable on board had completely descended into the sea, soon after we were halfway the Otranto canal (D’Amico, 1886: p.
D’Amico che ha decrito il dificultà che rispetto: l’ascensione imparfaite dell’ascensione della mere, che adobbe a calibrare l’ascensione del cablu nel mere, ha adobbe che l’ascensione, opportunamente in mer, e les freini che non è possiamo che è stato completamente descenduto in l’otranto (D’Amico, 1886: p.