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Heart beating, I moved up to the edge and put one hand up and held my mask to my face. I looked down once to check where in the water I was aiming to land - and then raised my head to look at the horizon. I had heard of faceplates cracking on stride entries if a diver was staring straight downwards. The glass took the force of the impact with the water and sometimes yielded to it.

Striding outwards strongly and pushing off with my trailing leg I was suddenly air borne. The combined weight of my dive kit and myself took me downwards like a Disney ride and I splashed into an explosion of white water and bubbles.

As the foam of my entry dissipated, I looked downwards and saw the seabed at the bottom of the gully running off out to seaward. I looked back at my buddy and he signalled for us to dive - so down we went to the bottom. I then followed him as we meandered out along the bottom of the gully before we cleared a large rocky shelf and the seabed dropped away deeper.

We followed the seabed down and as we moved on, I started to see some mangled bits of ship debris. Some rotted plates were lying in the sand alongside a pile of anchor chain. As we moved further out, the debris field got thicker and more crowded. Very soon the whole seabed was covered in the remains of a ship’s demise.