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Moored measurements of currents, temperature and salinity made at 6 sites across the Scotian Slope and Rise between October 2008 and September 2014. The measurements were part of the RAPID (Rapid Climate Change) Western Atlantic Variability Experiment (WAVE) funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and led by the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, in partnership with Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (BIO). The measurement sites were in water depths ranging from 1100m to 3880m near the Halifax Line and its deep-water extension (XHL), where DFO was carrying out hydrographic monitoring which facilitated the field operations and complement the moored datasets. There were 5 deployments of 9-21 months duration at the 6 primary mooring sites between 2008 and 2014. The primary instrumentation at each site and included in this dataset was an upward-looking Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) at 50 m above bottom (mab), and a MicroCat (MC) temperature-salinity sensor at 100 mab, with additional MCs up to 1100m below the surface at the deepest site during the first 4 deployments.