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The other divers and myself busied ourselves, getting air tanks, weights and heavy gear out of the cars and ferrying it all down to the edge of the slip, where the Zodiacs were to be tied up once launched.

In what seemed like just a few minutes the boats were ready and the boat cox’s were getting into their wet suits - seemingly able to prep a boat for sea and yet still be ahead of me getting rigged up in their own dive kit.

Very soon a cluster of divers rigged in wet suits and some in the new hotly debated dry suits stood around both Zodiacs as the drivers reversed their cars down the slip towards the water. The sterns of the boats went into the water and the trailers were reversed down into the water right up to the their axles, their wheels part submerged. Attendant divers then pulled at the Zodiacs, floating them easily off the trailers, and moving them around to the side of the slip where they were tied off.

The remaining divers started loading their gear into the two boats as the cars and trailers surged forward, pulling the trailers out behind in a white wash of water at the trailer wheels. The cars and trailers got parked out of harm’s way leaving the slip clear for any other boats to be launched.