Exhibit 4.1


  


	NUMBER 

U-	UNITS


 


SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS


 


CUSIP 675507 206


 


OCEANTECH ACQUISITIONS I CORP.


 


UNITS CONSISTING OF ONE SHARE OF CLASS A
COMMON STOCK AND ONE-HALF OF ONE WARRANT,


 


EACH WHOLE WARRANT ENTITLING THE HOLDER TO PURCHASE
ONE SHARE OF CLASS A COMMON STOCK


 


THIS CERTIFIES THAT                is the
owner of              Units.


 


Each Unit (“Unit”)
consists of one (1) share of Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Common Stock”), of
OceanTech Acquisitions I Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and one-half of one redeemable warrant
(the “Warrant”). Each whole Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one (1) share (subject to adjustment)
of Common Stock for $11.50 per share (subject to adjustment). Each Warrant will become exercisable on the later of (i) thirty (30)
days after the Company’s completion of a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or other
similar business combination with one or more businesses (each a “Business Combination”), or (ii) twelve
(12) months from the closing of the Company’s initial public offering, and will expire unless exercised before 5:00 p.m., New York
City Time, on the date that is five (5) years after the date on which the Company completes its initial Business Combination, or
earlier upon redemption or liquidation (the “Expiration Date”). The Common Stock and Warrants comprising the
Units represented by this certificate are not transferable separately prior to , 2021, unless Maxim Group LLC elects to allow separate
trading earlier, subject to the Company’s filing of a Current Report on Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission
containing an audited balance sheet reflecting the Company’s receipt of the gross proceeds of the Company’s initial public
offering and issuing a press release announcing when separate trading will begin. The terms of the Warrants are governed by a Warrant
Agreement, dated as of , 2021, between the Company and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as Warrant Agent, and are
subject to the terms and provisions contained therein, all of which terms and provisions the holder of this certificate consents to by
acceptance hereof. Copies of the Warrant Agreement are on file at the office of the Warrant Agent at 1 State Street, 30th Floor,
New York, New York 10004, and are available to any Warrant holder on written request and without cost.


 


This certificate is not valid
unless countersigned by the Transfer Agent and Registrar of the Company.


 


This certificate shall be
governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York.


 


Witness the facsimile signature
of a duly authorized signatory of the Company.


 






     


     


    

 


	 	 	 
	Authorized Signatory	 	Transfer Agent






 


OceanTech Acquisitions I Corp.


 


The Company will furnish
without charge to each unitholder who so requests, a statement of the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional
or other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof of the Company and the qualifications, limitations, or restrictions of
such preferences and/or rights.


 


The following abbreviations,
when used in the inscription on the face of this certificate, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to
applicable laws or regulations:


 


	TEN COM            —           as
    tenants in common	 	
    UNIF GIFT            —

    MIN ACT
	 	Custodian	 
	TEN ENT            —            as tenants by the entireties	 	 	(Cust)	 	(Minor)
	JT TEN  —        as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common	 	under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
	 	 	 	(State)
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 


 


Additional abbreviations may also be used though
not in the above list.


 


For value received,                            hereby sell, assign and transfer unto


 


(PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER IDENTIFYING
NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE)


 


(PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS, INCLUDING
ZIP CODE, OF ASSIGNEE)


 


Units represented by the within Certificate,
and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint


 


Attorney to transfer the said Units on the books
of the within named Company with full power of substitution in the premises.


 


 


	Dated	 
	 	
    Notice: The signature to this assignment
    must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any
    change whatever.

    



  


Signature(s) Guaranteed:





 


 






     


     


    

 


THE SIGNATURE(S) MUST BE GUARANTEED BY AN ELIGIBLE GUARANTOR INSTITUTION
(BANKS, STOCKBROKERS, SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS AND CREDIT UNIONS WITH MEMBERSHIP IN AN APPROVED SIGNATURE GUARANTEE MEDALLION PROGRAM,
PURSUANT TO S.E.C. RULE 17Ad-15 (OR ANY SUCCESSOR RULE).





 


 


In each case, as more
fully described in the Company’s final prospectus dated , 2021, the holder(s) of this certificate shall be entitled to receive
a pro-rata portion of certain funds held in the trust account established in connection with its initial public offering only in the event
that (i) the Company redeems the shares of Class A common stock sold in the Company’s initial public offering and liquidates
because it does not consummate an initial business combination within the time period set forth in the Company’s amended and restated
certificate of incorporation, as the same may be amended from time to time (such date being referred to herein as the “Last Date”),
(ii) the Company redeems the shares of Class A common stock sold in its initial public offering in connection with a stockholder
vote to amend the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation to modify the substance or timing of the Company’s
obligation to redeem 100% of the Class A common stock if it does not consummate an initial business combination by the Last Date,
or (iii) if the holder(s) seek(s) to redeem for cash his, her or its respective shares of Class A common stock in
connection with a tender offer (or proxy solicitation, solely in the event the Company seeks stockholder approval of the proposed initial
business combination) setting forth the details of a proposed initial business combination. In no other circumstances shall the holder(s) have
any right or interest of any kind in or to the trust account.