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Safety period over, once I was comfortable and relaxed I pulled the gag strap over my head, dropped the CCR mouthpiece from my mouth, pulled my 10mm neoprene dive hood back and pulled my mask off. A steaming pint of tea was immediately stuck in my hand by Ross – it’s something of a tradition on the Huskyan, and is much appreciated after a cold two- hour dive in 8°C water. As Gary did the same, we exploded into animated chatter about what we had just seen, the words tumbling out of our mouths like someone rapidly beating a drum.

‘Did you see the pit around the bow? That’s not a scour pit: she was 144 metres long and sunk by her bow in 70 metres,’ I said. ‘Looks like her bow hit the seabed whilst her stern was proud of the water – and then as she capsized to starboard her bow ground this pit in the seabed.’

‘The keel bar is severed 20–30 metres away from the stem. It’s the strongest part of the ship – so that might be where the mine hit?’

‘Right, so if the keel bar was severed and she then ground on the seabed as she capsized to starboard, maybe that’s why the keel bar is smoothly bent over to starboard and off the starboard side of the wreck.’