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I looked downwards and was surprised that I could not see the seabed below. I could see nothing below but empty deep water for as far as the eye could see. Below that, was a seemingly bottomless dark, inky void that filled me with foreboding. Was I really going down that far into that?

Looking around at either side of me, other than the boat I was holding onto, there was nothing that I could see other than empty water. It struck me that this was something of a tenuous position to be in. I was far out from shore clinging to a small inconsequential speck of a rubber boat with a single outboard attached to it - and was preparing to let go of that meagre modicum of safety to plunge down into the depths.

I kicked my legs and finned to the front of the Zodiac where the anchor line dropped away down below. I looked down the line as far as I could and saw it disappearing into the inky void, seemingly into infinity. This was something totally new to me – I hadn’t been in water this deep before and had not expected it to look, well. …. so deep.