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I moved onto the foremast and looked horizontally along it towards the wreck itself. The wreck was only barely discernible at this distance. All I could see of it was just a sinister, black silhouette, a dark shape that rose right up to the surface.

I followed the foremast horizontally towards the now vertical main deck of the wreck. As I moved along it, the blurred image of the wreck seemed to come into focus in the gloom. Suddenly I came within the horizon of underwater visibility and everything swam sharply into focus.

A large section of the shipwreck was laid out before me and I could see that the foremast rose out of a small deckhouse which had three rooms side by side in it – and an aft facing door into each room. Now this was interesting – what was inside?

I moved over to the door of the first room and, switching on the powerful beam of my dive torch, swept the interior of the room. The uppermost and rearmost walls were covered in all sorts of old fashioned electrical switches, junctions and white Bakelite fitments. I learned later that this was the switch room. The bottom of the room was filled with silt, shale and all sorts of shell life. There was so much to see in just this one small room that I almost forgot that there was the rest of the 550-foot wreck to explore.