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We pressed down and again I was disturbed at not being able to see the bottom. But then, when we got down to a depth of about 15 metres it was as though a curtain was pulled back and we moved through a visibility horizon. One moment I couldn’t see the seabed. Next, there was an amazing underwater seascape about 10-20 metres beneath me. The white anchor line led down to the chain and anchor – which were just lying on the seabed.

We dropped down the last 10 metres and landed on the seabed. I took time to look all around me at my new surroundings and get my buoyancy sorted out. Then, after an exchange of OK signals we moved off in one direction, swimming along just a few feet above the seabed.

All around me were flat slabs of rock housing lobsters, edible crabs and lots of conger eels. I had never seen conger eels in the wild before and they hid in their dark bolt holes with their blue/black head and eyes peering out at us, alien visitors in their underwater world. I had heard divers’ stories of congers biting off fingers and so gave them a wide berth. At one point I saw a conger in the open, a rare sight during the day as it moved over and under a large overhanging rock.