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Acknowledgement 
We thank Hapag-I ’oyd AG, Hamburg, the owners of CMS "Köln Atlantic", her masters 
Greve, Lange, Menk, Schätzei, Winter, and her mates Baumgartner, Behrend, E rgmann, 
Bultmann, Diers, Dins, von Dueszeln, Eckert, Frings, Heidrich, Höselb: t, Hüls, 
Klabunde, Rettel, Ritter, Rüger, Schieder, Schütte, and Sell, and Hamburg-S .d AG, the 
owners of CMS "Monte Rosa", her masters Wardetzki and Wieler, and her mates Kamp, 
Neiling, Peters, Rehberg, Simon, and Westphal for co-operating in this programme and 
carrying out the measurements skilfully. We hope to continue this Ship-of-Opportunity 
Programme as long as possible in co-operation with both companies and their highly 
motivated masters and officers. We also wish to express our thanks to Kai Soetje, head 
of the BSH research data group, who developed the new state-of-the-art XBT processing 
software.