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On Day 1 of the November 2016 expedition, the shotline was dropped to the seabed near the bow. After being aware of the history of this ship for so long, but never having dived it, I found it particularly moving to finally descend through the water column and see the majestic bow of this great dreadnought materialise in the depths below.

The bow section, from the stem back for some 60 feet, was sitting upright, with a least depth of about 25 metres at the top of the stem. The intact stem rose up from the seabed for about 11 metres but as I began to swim aft on the fo’c’sle deck, it quickly angled downwards towards the seabed where the ship has seemingly been cleaved across – just forward of where the barrels of A turret would have ended. The two large fairleads immediately abaft the stem (seen in the archive black and white photo) were still present, and portholes, still with their glass in them, lined either side of the fo’c’sle, interspersed by the two starboard anchor hawses and the single port hawse.