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About 20 miles offshore, above the grave of Audacious, I was about to dive another famous warship that was high on my wish list. Clad in my black drysuit, rebreather on my back, cylinders of deep and shallow bailout gases under either arm and with my underwater scooter clipped to my crotch D-ring and propped up on its nose, I stood at the dive gate through the gunwale, straining to support the 85kg of kit whilst I waited for the skipper to position his boat in the right place, directly beside and slightly up current of the shotline buoy. I was ready and eager to splash.

At the skipper’s signal, I strode off the dive boat and dropped down into languid blue water. The sea was calm and the sun, already high in the sky, beat directly down. A lot of light would be pouring down onto the wreck far below.

Once in the water, I looked around me and, as ever at Malin Head, I was impressed by being able to see for at least 100 feet in any one direction. The visibility was fantastic, a stunning opposite to the dark, cloudy waters of my usual east coast dive sites. This wreck was going to be a joy to dive today.