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Colin looked at me, eyes seemingly bulging through his facemask and gave me the OK question signal. I gave the OK signal back, belying my apprehension and he then gave the thumbs down sign, the sign to start going down. He dipped his head down and raised his feet high and the weight pressing down helped him duck dive. He started going down the line effortlessly and casually. I duck-dived and followed him down the line, hand over hand.

I was not to get far down. I had been unnerved by the depth of the water we were in – there was still no sight of the bottom. I then realised that I had not seated my mask properly on my face. The seal, which should seal onto my skin, was sitting on top of a small section of my wet suit hood, not under it. I did not have a watertight seal and so, as I went down a steady trickle of water entered the mask and it started filling up.

I was making the descent in a head down position so the water dribbling into my mask ended up on my faceplate. Everything below, the line – including Colin - seemed to become slightly blurred and indistinct. Then everything swam completely out of focus so that I could not make out anything at all.