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A kettle was coming to the boil on one of the units and the smell of brewed tea, toast and peanut butter hung in the air. I made myself a welcome cuppa and sat down to chat to the rest of my club members. There was an excited animation to the conversation, common to any sort of expedition – mainly centred on planning the next day’s diving.

The dive marshals for the trip had scheduled two dives, both were going to be on HMS Port Napier, the first at about 9am. The maximum depth for the dive, the depth to the seabed, was about 20 metres. In keeping with the BSAC recommendations of the time for repeat diving, there would then be a 6-hour decompression surface interval, before the second dive of the day, later in the afternoon.

We would rise at 7am, breakfast, load up and head off to Kyle to launch the Zodiacs at the small slip just to the south of the main ferry ramp. This slip used to serve the old ferry but had fallen into disuse when the larger roll on/roll off ferry had come into service, with the new large concrete landing ramp that was created for it.