AEHA Aesther Healthcare Acquisition Corporation

Ocean Biomedical, Inc. (the “Company”) is furnishing this Current Report on Form 8-K (this “Current Report”) in connection with the disclosure of information about the Company in the form of an investor presentation (the “Investor Presentation”), which the Company prepared and intends to present at various meetings with analysts, potential investors, and other interested parties. A copy of the Investor Presentation is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated into this Item 7.01 by reference. On March 17, 2023, the Company posted the Investor Presentation to the “Investor Relations” section of its website, which is accessible at www.investors.oceanbiomedical.com.

The information included in the Investor Presentation is summary information that should be considered in the context of the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and other public announcements the Company has made or may make by press release or otherwise from time to time. The Investor Presentation speaks as of the date of this Current Report. By furnishing this Current Report and the Investor Presentation, the Company makes no admission as to the materiality of any information in the Investor Presentation. While the Company may elect to update the Investor Presentation in the future to reflect events and circumstances that occur or exist after the date of this Current Report, the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to do so.

The information in this Current Report is being furnished under Item 7.01 and shall not be deemed to be “filed” for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of such section, nor shall such information be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such a filing. The Investor Presentation contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended. As discussed in the second slide of the Investor Presentation entitled “Forward-Looking Statements,” forward-looking statements are based on the Company’s expectations and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause the Company’s actual results to differ materially from those set forth in the statements. These risks are discussed in the Company’s filings with the SEC, including in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and the Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and are described in the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s definitive proxy statement, filed by the Company with the SEC on January 12, 2023, and other documents to be filed by the Company from time to time with the SEC, which are and will be available at www.sec.gov.