After a brief and schematic presentation of the cruise in section 2, Section 1gives the introductory and background information, includingsome technological and scientific issues of the organization and execution of tasks Section 3 provides the technical aspects thatwere involved in the data acquisition and processing. Sections 4 and 5 discuss the initial results, the on-going data processing and usage, and give concluding remarks. Section 6 in the Appendix summarizes the cruise operations.