Water column raw data using the ship's own Kongsberg EM 122 multibeam echosounder was not continuously recorded during RV MARIA S. MERIAN cruise MSM101. Data was recorded only on 2 days between 2021-06-26 and 2021-06-27 on the shelf area south of Nova Scotia. These profiles are part of the corresponding raw dataset (https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.993545) (which include the .all files. This publication is conducted within the efforts of the German Marine Research Alliance in the core area 'Data management and Digitalization' (Deutsche Allianz Meeresforschung, DAM).

These data should not be used for navigational purposes.Data publishing was realized by Daniel Damaske, MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (University of Bremen).