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The BoWaSnapper is a Multihorizon-BottomWaterSampler, suitable for deep-sea deployment and used for the investigation of the sediment-water interface (particles, organisms, geochemical tracers). It has been developed in collaboration with Dr. E. Sauter from Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Bremerhaven, and is successfully in use at water depths between 20 m and 5500 m since 2001. The BoWaSnapper enables the high resolutive sampling of the bottom closest water layers within a very short period (some minutes only). Six water bottles vertically adjustable and attached to the middle axis carry out the water sampling. Equipped with an autonomous bottom releaser that closes the water bottles some minutes after the touch-down on the sea bed, the Multihorizon-BottomWaterSampler can be used with any serial wire, i. e. no data transfer cable is necessary.