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Throughout Saturday 28 May 2016, our group of deep shipwreck divers began to arrive in Stromness from all points of the compass. The group consisted of ten British and three Finnish divers, many of whom had been travelling for days by road, sea and air to get here. The Finns, Marjo Tynkkynen, Kari Hyttinen and Immi Wallin, in particular brought highly specialist underwater stills and 3D photogrammetry expertise to the expedition, and collectively there was over 200 years of worldwide wreck diving experience between the group. However, despite the high level of technical diving and shipwreck knowledge, at this point many of the group had never met each other, let alone dived together before. Shaping this group of divers into a safe and effective deep shipwreck survey team would be the first expedition objective.

That night, the four co-organisers hosted a team briefing in our accommodation, the fine Divers Lodge owned by Ben and Emily. As expedition leader, it fell to me to give the welcoming address and expedition overview, including the legal restrictions by which we were bound. We felt it would be too much to brief on the wreck straight away on this, our first gathering, so we had decided to restrict this meeting to the basics and let everyone get to know each other. The wreck briefing itself would be done tomorrow after the shakedown dives on the Markgraf were completed.