Mikhail Lermontov

We felt this enormous bang and the ship really shuddered and you could feel it scraping along something. And we all looked at each other and went ‘Oh my God,’ you know, what’s happened?

– Passenger

You sort of learn a lot about yourself. Getting inside the ship you sort of realise you are or your aren’t the sort of person who can operate without visibility in a confined space.

– Diver

The ‘slight water intrusion’ was caused by a gash in the ship’s port side 40 feet long. The rocks tore through three watertight bulkheads. She had to sink.

– Narrator Martyn Sanderson