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Local diving historian Kevin Heath of Sula Diving in Orkney had carried out detailed side- scan sonar mapping of the wreck site in advance of our arrival. His preliminary work proved particularly useful in identifying large objects lying off the wreck in what had transpired to be the debris field of items that had dropped from the ship as she turned turtle on the surface. Each day, pairs of divers were assigned a particular task – and using Kevin’s scans we could now take bearings from fixed points on the wreck to these objects out in the debris field, and send divers out to check them out.

Some of the divers were using diver propulsion vehicles (DPVs) and were able to cover large areas of the seabed quickly. There were some very big lumps on the seabed more than 200 metres off the wreck, and Paul Haynes and Brian Burnett were sent out on scooters to investigate those. These turned out to be large Norwegian glacial melt boulders, the size of an SUV.

Paul Toomer and Mic Watson were a very strong buddy pair who worked well together – they were tasked to go and devote a dive to filming in detail the upright 6-inch gun, impaled in the seabed, that was the furthest gun off the wreck. As they were doing this they noticed a dinner fork lying on the seabed beside the gun. Their videography was so good that when Kari Hyttinen worked on the 3D photogrammetry data processing that evening, as the gun materialised out of the point cloud data during processing, the fork could clearly be seen gleaming on the seabed beside it.