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Once I got there, the slip stopped abruptly and dropped straight down for another six feet or so. We all duck-dived here and made our way down to the bottom. It was a novel sensation for me to be diving in this complete darkness, not able to see my companions - only their torch beams dancing around, seemingly originating from nowhere.

I reached the bottom at about 5 metres and we swam along keeping the embankment on our left. The water got deeper and deeper shelving off slowly until we got into about 15 metres.

As we moved along, we came across a point that obviously was or had been used as an unofficial dumping ground. All sorts of debris lay around, including a selection of emblazoned crockery plates from one of the local hotels. We tried using these as underwater Frisbees for a while until the novelty wore off.

We moved on along the embankment and about 10 minutes into the dive the embankment gave way to a proper harbour wall. My torch lit up large square sandstone blocks roughly cemented together aeons ago - with most of the cement having fallen out or turned to dust long ago.