# Customer Stories

**Customer Stories**  
**July 13, 2026**  
**Spotter Deployed During Exercise Balikatan 2026**

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**Customer Stories**  
**June 16, 2026**  
**How real-time wave data replaced manual port closures at Chile's exposed oil terminals**

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**Customer Stories**  
**June 9, 2026**  
**How a coral nursery in Kāneʻohe Bay turned a single Spotter into a community resource**

**Customer Stories**  
**April 20, 2026**  
**Monitoring the Gulf's Most Remote Coral Reef, 100 Miles From Shore**

**Customer Stories**  
**April 13, 2026**  
**Dropping Buoys Into Cyclones: How Queensland Monitors 7,000 km of Coastline**

**Customer Stories**  
**April 7, 2026**  
**SPREP deploys Spotter networks in Kiribati and Samoa to strengthen coastal resilience**

**Customer Stories**  
**June 23, 2025**  
**New Acoustic Monitoring Project Introduces Pioneering Blue Tech to Help Protect Humpback Whales Near San Francisco Bay**

**Customer Stories**  
**March 26, 2025**  
**How the Quileute Tribe and Quinault Indian Nation use the Spotter Platform to collect real-time data and enhance coastal resilience**

**Customer Stories**  
**February 27, 2025**  
**How Dorian LPG achieves 9% average fuel savings with Wayfinder**

**Customer Stories**  
**December 18, 2024**  
**How Boskalis uses the Spotter Platform to measure real-time subsurface ocean currents and assess site workability**

**Customer Stories**  
**July 31, 2024**  
**Global shipping leader MOL Group deploys Wayfinder across fleet to cut emissions**

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**Customer Stories**  
**July 17, 2024**  
**How researchers use the Spotter Platform to collect real-time data and protect the Poor Knights Islands**

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**Customer Stories**  
**September 12, 2023**  
**Press Release: NOAA’s NDBC, Sofar Ocean to share methodologies to advance marine monitoring and research capabilities**

**Customer Stories**  
**August 7, 2023**  
**How Luode streamlines the design and maintenance of offshore wind sites with the Spotter Platform**

**Customer Stories**  
**May 25, 2023**  
**Quileute Tribe deploys first buoy of Backyard Buoys program**

**Customer Stories**  
**December 15, 2022**  
**How The Ocean Cleanup uses Sofar’s metocean data to clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch**

**Customer Stories**  
**August 25, 2022**  
**How Mørenot uses Spotter buoys to promote safe aquaculture operations**

**Customer Stories**  
**April 28, 2022**  
**Backyard Buoys: bringing Spotters to Indigenous communities on the front lines of climate change**

**Customer Stories**  
**December 9, 2021**  
**The Center for Applied Coastal Research studies beach nourishment with a Spotter buoy**

**Customer Stories**  
**October 25, 2021**  
**Spotter buoys deployed in South Australia to provide real time wave data for the Adelaide Metropolitan Coast**