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Description: Multibeam bathymetry raw data using the ship's own R2Sonic SONIC 2024 Wideband multibeam echosounder was not continuously recorded during RV ELISABETH MANN BORGESE (EMB) cruise EMB304. Data was recorded on 3 separate days (2022-10-25, 2022-10-29, 2017-10-30. This dataset contains a survey in the Baltic Sea. The system settings of the device were set prior to the cruise and data acquisition was not entirely monitored during the survey time. This publication is conducted within the efforts of the German Marine Research Alliance in the core area 'Data management and Digitalization' (Deutsche Allianz Meeresforschung, DAM). This dataset is considered to be a test dataset for the incorporation of data from EMB into PANGAEA. The software QINSy from QPS was used for data recording. Data is stored with the regular QINSy data format .db and the auxiliary .xtf data format. Data are not compatible with the open source software package MB-System (Caress, D. W., and D. N. Chayes, MB-System: Mapping the Seafloor, http://www.mbari.org/products/research-software/mb-system/, 2022), therefore - as up to this publication date – professional software like CARIS HIPS/SIPS or QPS QIMERA is needed the post-process the data. Thus, individual data files could not be georeferenced by reading out the files itself using open-source software. Data files contained empty spaces " " in the file names. All files had to be renamed using underscores "_", since PANGAEA database does not allow the usage of spaces " " in file names. Data are unprocessed and therefore contain incorrect depth measurements (artifacts). Note that refraction errors can be expected due to the lack of accurate sound velocity profiles (SVP). Overall, it appears that the data quality differs. The gridded hillshade from data acquired on 2022-10-25 showed relatively many obstacles at the slant beams (bad data quality). Data acquired on 2022-10-29 show in general relatively less obstacles (very good data quality) with elongated structures on the seafloor without a distinct pattern. Data acquired on 2022-10-30 show in general a few obstacles (moderate data quality).