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I walked down the slip to the water’s edge and looked in. The water was still, the oily surface dappled almost mesmerically by the light drizzle. The water was black as the darkest night but still seemed as though it would be clear enough once we were in. We committed to the dive and went and started getting kitted up again.

Once the four of us were rigged, we all walked down to the end of the slip along with the two non-divers doing surface cover. I looked at my newly acquired Suunto wrist compass and took a bearing along the heavily built up embankment that ran off towards the distant harbour. I wanted to know which way I was heading out so that if we got disorientated in the darkness I’d know which way it was to return. We would dive in two buddy pairs, but keep together in a loose foursome grouping.

We ran through a few underwater torch signals. Divers normally communicate by hand signals during daylight. At night there are signals that can be made to each other with torches. The easiest way for example of giving another diver the OK signal is by sweeping your torch round in a large ‘O’.