There are few dives on the planet where your maximum depth is below the seabed. There are fewer like that still that you'd also dive in the midst of a storm. The weather forecast hadn't been great with Storm Hector passing through. We had a limited time window. The plan was to dive the SMS Bayern gun turrets, like the Markgraf the day before according to a pretty strict plan. We plopped in and dropped down on the main turret. We looked about for half an hour, dipping below the seabed to have a look inside the turret, before very slowly heading back to the surface.
At the surface the weather was changing. The sea was slowly changing in into a lumpy mess that was enough to convince most divers on the boat to skip out the opportunity to dive the F2 - a nazi built WW2 wreck.
Despite the maelstrom on the surface, beneath the surface it was calm, shallow and scenic. For the first time in the week I was leading.
Back on the surface I looked into the storm and I felt a little like Achilles calling out Hector.
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