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In front of me were the rails of a narrow gauge railway now set one above the other in this on-its-side world. I realised that we were in one of the four-fabled railway lines for the mine trolleys that ran through the entire length of the ship, connecting all the holds throughout it together.

We must have swum for about 100 feet along this corridor in complete darkness, following the rails as they led us astern. As we did, the bright green patch of open seawater at the end of the line got larger and larger. Before long we were each popping out of the corridor cut in the rounded stern of the ship itself. The openings for the three other corridors were all open for inspection here, one of which had guide ropes rigged in it by some serious wreckies.

Richard led us up into shallower water and then guided us back along the length of the ship passing a devastated area where the wreck lost its ship shape - where the explosion had taken place. Very soon we were back at the foremast and moving out along it to find the buoy line to ascend.