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title: Nortek unveil Marin buoy and ADCP system
date: 2026-09-29T12:23:00+00:00
author: Rachel McAlpine
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Last week, Nortek unveiled the Marin buoy and ADCP system at Oceans 2026 in Monterey. This new system will offer users real-time, motion-corrected current profiles as well as wave parameters, temperature, salinity, and other supporting data.

For more than 30 years, Nortek has been a trusted manufacturer of Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs). Now, Nortek is introducing its new complete end-to-end system for real-time current profiling, combining a surface buoy, ADCP, and software for live data viewing.

The Marin buoy will include a built-in Marin ADCP, which offers current profiles up to a 20 m range. The dynamic nature of surface buoy requires motion correction to gather quality current profiles. Nortek’s OceanIQ smart QA / QC edge processing capabilities onboard the buoy perform motion correction adjustments and automatically filter data for quality control, ensuring only quality data are transmitted via satellite.

[Learn more about Nortek's new Marin system here. ](https://www.nortekgroup.com/news/first-look-at-marin)