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At one point I swept my torch upwards along the harbour wall that was passing by on my left hand side. Two enormous conger eels were sticking half out of their holes in between the blocks. These eels are about 3-6 feet long on average and as wide as the circle formed by a grown man’s two hands held apart with fingers and thumbs touching. They are a foreboding blue-black colour with the most cold, lifeless, jet black eyes imaginable. Thankfully these seeming monsters didn’t come out of their holes to investigate us.

We swam along beneath these congers - and as we continued to swim more of them appeared – the whole place was well stocked with congers.

About 20 minutes into the dive and the harbour wall made a sharp right-angled turn to seaward. As we continued along I swept my torch upwards and was surprised to see the steel hull and large non-ferrous propeller of some sort of merchant ship about 10 feet away directly above us. There was no sound of any engine – only the stillness and quiet that you get used to as a diver – broken only by the mechanical sounds of your aqualung and the gurgle of your exhaust bubbles as you exhale.