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As the shot weight went over the side, the coiled rope paid out quickly from the deck, only arresting its frantic deployment as the shot landed on the seabed. The rope had been precut to the length required and already had a couple of fisherman’s floats attached to its end; they had insufficient buoyancy to drag the shot away from the wreck. The tide would drag them under until it went slack, when they would pop up to the surface again and make it clear it was time to dive. The first divers in would attach a large danbuoy to the shotline as they went in, to give buoyancy in case there was some sort of emergency during the dive itself. We all clustered in the saloon for our dive briefing and allocating of tasks and areas of operation for each pair of divers. Dive briefing over, it was time to start getting kitted up.

As with yesterday, Ben and Greg Booth would dive first to fix the shot near the wreck. Paul Haynes and Brian Burnett were next into the water, as Ross got the self-deploying trapeze into the water, taking spare gas and the transfer line down the shotline to clip it on at 30 metres. Next, Gary and I would splash.