ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The realization of AMOR would not have been possible without the continuous support from the Natural History Museum Basel (Fonds für Lehre und Forschung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel; Stiftung zur Förderung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel), the City of Basel, and contributions from the Swiss National Foundation for Scientific Research (SNF grant numbers 2100-067970.02 and 200020-109258/1). We acknowledge the kind help of Mr. Schmidlin (KTR-Kupplungstechnik AG in Zürich) to solve coupling problems with the motorzoom. S. Müllegger (University of Graz) kindly provided sample material from German Meteor-cruise 63/2, and C.M. Chiessi (University of Bremen) provided samples from the South Atlantic. Special thanks go to Prof. J. Kopainsky for introducing the first author to the FHBB and for his generous assistance to carry early developments of AMOR to our present AMOR3 system. We acknowledge the helpful comments from A.R. Evans, an anonymous reviewer, and L. Costeur for translating the abstract into French.