Having qualified in the mid 1990’s, I spent several happy years diving around cod–filled and dark Dorset shipwrecks and the beautiful Devon and Cornish waters of the South West English coast. Then North with nosey Scottish seals and their leggy, spider- crab companions, qualifying as a PADI Rescue Diver.

In a dense and somewhat unnerving Falklands blizzard, my family and I landed in August 2013. I have been diving with the SMSG since the following October, helping with their underwater surveys, photographs and collections and generally having a really good time.