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I popped my head in through the doorway and shone my torch around. It was a large room, the bottom of which was carpeted in a fine grey silt. Above me, another doorway led off somewhere deeper into the wreck enticing me to explore further - but caution overcame the urge to explore inside. I dropped back down into the corridor-like walkway and finned quickly after Richard.

The bright rectangle of the exit to open water got bigger and bigger as I approached and I caught up with Richard just as the three of us emerged from the gloomy corridor into open water again.

Below me, on the seabed, was a large flat section of metal, which ran out from the deckhouse and was studded with rivets. As I looked at it, trying to work out from its size what it must have been, it suddenly dawned on me that this was the massive funnel of this 550-foot long ship. When she sank initially it would have jutted out of the deckhouse at right angles. Made of lightweight steel to keep weight down, the funnel would soon have rotted and collapsed to the seabed, crumpled and flattened.