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Once we had all de-kitted and changed out of our drysuits into our dry clothes, we all gathered in the Huskyan’s spacious saloon, where even more pints of tea were served along with skipper Emily Turton’s justly famous home bakes. You do get treated extremely well on the Huskyan!

In addition to Huskyan’s famous hospitality, Emily is also legendary for her fantastically detailed dive briefings and whiteboard drawings on her regular Scapa Flow dive trips. In advance of this expedition, she had had a huge whiteboard wall mounted in the saloon and as we all sipped tea and ate cake, she sketched out on it the upturned hull of the Hampshire on the seabed.

We had agreed to hold a debrief every day on the passage back south to Scapa Flow to capture everyone’s memories in a formal way, before the days began to merge into one another and memories became muddled and lost. Once the basic outline was up on the board, we went around each of the divers one by one, asking them to take their turn at the whiteboard, saying what they saw and where. Emily then added the things they had seen, like the impaled 6-inch guns and the pinnace Yarrow boilers, in the right locations on the whiteboard. The process took about an hour, and it was clear that even after Day 1 we already had a good idea of the layout of the wreck.