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Main Winch

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The ODIM winch being assembled after shipping from Norway in the Iselin Marine facilty at WHOI.
A 150 ton capacity hydraulic crane is required to load the main winch components on board Knorr.
View from starboard of the winch installed and working onboard Knorr. The CTCU with it?s six independently controlled motors is in the foreground. The storage reel sits to port and the fiber rope is lead through a fairlead damper and a level winding device to reach the drum. A specially outfitted container full of the electronics necessary to control the system sits on top the storage reel.
The damper and level wind device are clearly visible.
ODIM engineer Rolf-Inge Ambjornsen checks out the equipment
Detail of the CTCU illustrating the individually driven sheaves wrapped with the high strength fiber rope. The Long Core A-frame towers overhead.