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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the many ships' captains and crews and the scientists involved in the collection of the hydrographic data used in this work. Any success in our preliminary investigation is due in no small part to the high quality and large quantity of hydrocasts that have been made available to us. We would also like to thank the other BEST principal investigators: Arnold L. Gordon and Dale Pillsbury.
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