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Without hesitating Richard moved through the opening and was gone into the blackness. I knew he was pretty familiar with the wreck and guessed he had been through here before - so I kicked my legs and followed him into the darkness, as did my buddy.

Once inside I swept my torch around and found that I was in the starboard Promenade deck walkway, which used to run along this side of this superstructure. Below me was the seabed and the ever-present carpet of shells. Above me was the flat seaward facing starboard side of the superstructure, dotted with portholes. It didn’t even occur to me to consider the enormous weight of metal that was now sitting above me.

About 100 feet ahead of me I could see that the walkway ended. A large rectangular opening was a brilliant green glare of clear, open water. I could see Richard’s silhouette, framed in the bright rectangle ahead of me, finning slowly and carefully as he moved forward along the walkway, which was now a tunnel.

As I kicked after him I moved forward and came across a black doorway above my head. Now this was interesting - but to venture inside would be serious wreck penetration, for which I was not equipped. Richard would be expecting me to follow him, as dive leader, and would not take kindly to turning round to find that I had disappeared without warning into the very bowels of the wreck.