field projects. Any additional research on the hydrodynamics near the seabed 

 would increase the usefulness of data collected with this instrumentation. 



Acknowledgments 



We wish to acknowledge the financial support of the Coastal Sciences 

 Program, Office of Naval Research, Oregon State University's Ocean 

 Engineering Program, and the U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment 

 Station Coastal Engineering Research Center for the invitation to participate in 

 the SUPERTANK project. We also wish to thank the Coastal and 

 Oceanographic Engineering laboratory staff at the University of Florida for 

 their assistance. 



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