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With the first hurdle cleared, the four co-organisers then had to sit down and agree who would be invited to join the team. There would be 12 divers – and in addition to being seasoned deep mixed-gas rebreather divers, each would have to bring a specialist skill to the group to help us achieve our aims. There could be no passengers.

After throwing a lot of names into the hat we came up with a dream team of divers that we would like on the exped. There would be no massive egos, no difficult, abrasive, grand standing or needy characters – just good solid, safe, deep divers, each with a particular skill. It’s fair to say that we ended up with at least two or three names for each of the slots.

We talked over our list of potential divers and whittled it down until we had a final group. The invitations went out, and aside from a couple of divers who couldn’t make it due to work commitments, everyone else we asked jumped at the chance of being on such an expedition. The final expedition team pool was: