Tech News 1: Engineers invent adjustable, compact marine winch, offering flexibility and improved vessel operations

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Most research operations and missions require winches for hauling and retrieving equipment over the side of ships. A winch is used to hoist items to and from the deck such as nets, vehicles and other scientific equipment. Typically, marine winches in use today have large on-deck footprints, can be difficult to operate, are costly single purpose, and are used from one fixed location on the deck.

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