Ocean Innovations

Ocean Innovations is a supplier and distributor of oceanographic equipment and marine technology, working from 7416 Cabrillo Avenue in La Jolla, California. Rather than manufacturing instruments itself, the company collaborates with numerous manufacturers and resells their underwater equipment, acting as a single point of contact for buyers who would otherwise have to source components from many separate vendors. Its stated customer base spans oceanographic researchers, commercial and scientific divers, hydrographic surveyors, environmental engineers, defense contractors and the offshore industry. The catalogue is organized by component type rather than by brand, and it covers most of the hardware needed to build, deploy and recover an underwater system. On the sensing side it lists acoustic modems, altimeters, current meters, multibeam sonars, scanning sonars, side scan sonars, survey sensors, motion reference and heading sensors, tide gauges, wave gauges, GPS receivers, navigation systems and tracking systems. Optical and imaging products include cameras, video cameras, lights and lasers. Vehicle and platform products include ROVs, USVs, benthic landers, winches, submersible pumps and sampling equipment such as water sample bottles. A large share of the range covers the connective and structural hardware that underwater work depends on: connectors including fiber optic types, OptoLink Fiber Optic Connectors and Cables, cable, cable grips, cable reels, splice kits and resin, pressure housings, pressure relief valves, pressure activated switches, purge and vacuum ports, batteries, data telemetry, location products, biofouling solutions, and flotation in the form of glass spheres, polystyrene spheres and buoys. Pressure testing and rental equipment are listed alongside the hardware, and Tritech control units are called out as a separate line. The manufacturers represented include Ametek SCP, Bellamare, BIRNS, Deep Ocean Engineering, DeepSea Power Light, Deep Trekker Inc., DOER Marine, Falmat Cable, Falmouth Scientific, Inc., Hemisphere GPS, Marshall Underwater, MetOcean, Nautilus Marine Service, Novatech, Oceanbotics, Ocean Instruments, ReelEasy, RJE International, Shift Coastal Technologies, SRS FUSION, SubConn, Tritech and 3M, whose Scotchcast resin and splice kits it carries. Business is transacted person to person rather than through an anonymous checkout. Buyers are asked to contact the company by phone or email for availability confirmation and personalized quotes, and the company offers guidance on matching equipment to a given project. Ocean Innovations also takes part in industry events: its president, Brock Rosenthal, is announced as presenting with Global Ocean Design during the OCEANS 2026 marine technology conference in Monterey, California.