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navigation, search  An umbilical cable or umbilical is a cable
which supplies required consumables to an apparatus. It is named
by analogy with an umbilical cord. An umbilical can for example
supply air and power to a pressure suit or hydraulic power,
electrical power and fiber optics to a subsea equipment.  Space
suits[edit]  Early space suits used umbilicals, but modern
designs carry their own temperature/humidity control, air supply
and electric batteries.   Subsea umbilicals are deployed on the
seabed (ocean floor) to supply necessary control, energy
(electric, hydraulic) and chemicals to subsea oil and gas wells,
subsea manifolds and any subsea system requiring remote control,
such as a remotely operated vehicle. Subsea intervention
umbilicals are also used for offshore drilling or workover
activities.   A diver's umbilical is a group of components which
supply breathing gas and other services from the surface control
point to a diver.  For