Table 1. Data sources.
| Source | Contact information |
| Marine Scientific Research | |
| Report of Observations/Samples collected by Oceanographic Programmes (ROSCOP) Cruise Summary Reports | http://www.ices.dk/Ocean/roscop/index.asp |
| British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) | http://www.bodc.ac.uk |
| Hotspot Ecosystem Research on the Margins of European Seas (HERMES) | http://www.eu-hermes.net/members/cruises.html |
| Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange | http://www.oceandataportal.org |
| National Marine Facilities, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton | http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/nmf |
| Ocean Information Centre, Research Ship Schedules and Information | http://www.researchvessels.org |
| Pangaea Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data | http://www.pangaea.de |
| Various individual scientific institutions | |
| Submarine Cables | |
| Kingfisher Information Service – Cable Awareness | www.kisca.org.uk/charts.htm#option4 |
| France Telecom SigCables | www.sigcables.com/cgi-bin/index.pl |
| Waste disposal: Radioactive Waste | |
| NEA.1985. Review of the Continued Suitability of the Dumping Site for Radioactive Waste in the North-East Atlantic. Nuclear Energy Agency, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris. 448pp. | |
| Waste Disposal: Munitions and chemical weapons | |
| OSPAR. 2005. (Revised). Overview of Past Dumping at Sea of Chemical Weapons and Munitions in the OSPAR Maritime Area. Biodiversity Series. OSPAR, London. 13 pp. | http://www.ospar.org/documents%5Cdbase%5Cpublications%5Cp00222_2005%20Revised%20Dumping%20at%20Sea%20of%20chemical%20weapons.pdf |
| Oil and Gas Industry | |
| UK Digital Energy Atlas and Library | http://www.ukdeal.co.uk |
| Norwegian Petroleum Directorate | http://www.npd.no/en/ |
Sources from which data were acquired.