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As it was such a large site to survey, the team objective for the first dive was to gain a general orientation and appreciation of the site. Once we collectively had a feel for the lay of the site, individual survey tasks would then be allocated to each dive pair on a daily basis.

The next day, full of enthusiasm, we all rose at 0600, and after breakfast in the Divers Lodge, walked across the quay to the Huskyan, whose twin diesels were already turning over. We were soon all aboard, ropes were cast off and we were away – heading south out of Stromness harbour before turning to the west to head out through Hoy Sound to the Atlantic.

Once out of Scapa Flow, we turned our head to the north and started to run up the west coast of Orkney, retracing the route taken by the Hampshire 100 years earlier. Slack water would arrive about 1130, so we would be arriving on site well in advance of slack, ready to safely place a weighted shotline on the seabed beside the wreck, kit up and be ready to dive at slack – as I said before, you can never be too early for slack.