Winches & Cable Handling
InterOcean winches and cable handling systems are used for a variety of applications, including defense, marine science, and offshore industries. Our winches are renowned for their durability and high reliability in challenging marine environments.
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InterOcean Systems designs and manufactures a variety of standard and specialized winches and cable handling systems for deployment and recovery of critical sensors and equipment in the offshore environment. Our winches fill many needs from portable light-duty small boat operations to heavy-duty deepwater marine applications.
Product and services offered for winch and cable handling systems:

Standard Winches
InterOcean's selection of winch designs is anything but standard. InterOcean winches offer proven solutions refined over decades of experience, design, delivery, and support, worldwide, and through decades of performance. From lightweight and portable to heavy-duty winches for marine applications, our base winch designs can be customized with a variety of features and options to meet customers’ specific application needs and demanding operational requirements. All InterOcean Systems winches are designed and fabricated at our facility in San Diego, CA. Contact an InterOcean Sales Engineer today, or please submit define/submit your needs using our unique Interactive Winch Configurator tool, or Winch Worksheet tool.
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Customized Winch Design
For unique winch and cable handling applications that may require a particular approach, InterOcean has decades of custom winch engineering and design experience with many examples to inspire and inform each unique vessel plan and each set of application requirements. Whether you need aerial tether management, subsea systems, marine science/trawl core, autonomous surface vessel, man-rated system, or a special set of qualification requirements, let us help guide you through the design and selection process for a robust and purpose-built system.
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Sheaves
Standard or instrumented sheaves offer solutions for cable overboarding monitoring and control applications. Typically offered in sizes ranging from 12 to 48 inches with various working loads and instrumentation options including deployed cable length, speed, and tension monitoring, display and feedback for adaptive control.
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