Many people contributed to the success of this cruise. Firstly, we wish to thanks the Captain, Emanuele Gentile, the Chief Engineer, Carmine Ciano, the officers and crew of R/V Urania for their great professionalism and big efforts in assuring the success of the cruise. The project was mainly funded by IGM-CNR, with minor contributions from LDEO and TUBITAK, and we are indebted to the IGM, LDEO and TUBITAK management staffs for the continuous effort in solving the financial and technical problems. In particular we greatly appreciated the continued support of the collaborative project and the great hospitality of Prof. Naci Görür and of Alina Polonia, who was charged of the coordination and of the preparation of the Cruise. NATO provided seed funding to cover the travel expenses of all the different groups for this Project (NATO Cooperative Linkage Grant EST-CLG No.976826 "Historic and prehistoric Submarine Fault Ruptures in the Marmara Sea").
The Ambassador Vittorio C. Surdo and Dr. Timoni of the Italian Embassy in Ankara were extremely helpful in solving the bureaucratic procedures that were involved in the expedition.
MARINE CONSULTING of Ravenna installed and deinstalled the Multibeam on the hull of the Urania with the greatest professionalism and care. We are indebted to Mr. Leoni, Mr. Dettore and to the field team for their work.
GEI of Castelvecchio Pascoli provided us with the ACHILLE ROV. We thank F.Colognori for his jump into this adventure and for the time he spent.
A.Giordano ... G.Giovannini ... TAINOX Magnani ...
We thank also the Pilots of the Izmit and Golguk areas and the Istanbul Traffic Control for their assistance and continuous help.