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When looking to come up with an eye-catching cover image for the book I managed to prevail upon Bob Anderson, skipper of the Scapa Flow dive boat MV Halton. Rather than a blurry, dark underwater image, a sharp, moody image of a diver at the surface with a dive boat behind would, I thought, work. Bob, who did much of the underwater photography for Dive Scapa Flow, graciously agreed and we set up a few days for a shoot in November 2017. It was, in reality, partly an excuse for me to jump on to the Halton and get some diving in Scapa. In between dives we would muck about on the surface and see if we could get the shot I was after.

I arrived aboard the Halton, which was tied up in Stromness harbour, in darkness on a cold, windy November night. After getting a couple of days’ fine diving done on the German World War I shipwrecks, as the weather broke and the seas picked up Bob took the Halton into a small bay in the lee of the island of Cava. There, bobbing about on the surface, we got calm enough water to spend an hour trying all sorts of different shots and angles, which involved positioning the Halton to get it in the background, until we got the final photo you see on the cover. I’m very much obliged, Bob!