Part 1 gives the introductory and background information and settings, along with some technological and scientific issues that were involved in the organizational and execution tasks. The marine operations and results of the two cruises TIR96 and TIR99, are presented and discussed in Parts 2 and 3, respectively. The problems of data processing are addressed by Part 4 , whereas Part 5 gives some concluding remarks and targets the on-going data processing and usage. Some data processing procedures that were used in the production of this Report alongwith further technical details and data are presented in Appendix.