Tuesday 12th June 2001 – 8.15am
Half-tide, leaving slowly out of the Channel, the water meandering and trying to stay behind. There is almost no wind, just a calm on the water that ripples only from the movement of water beneath its surface. The sun in the sky has given the water a wonderful shine this morning, and the same sun is beginning to light up Black Combe. On the water a fisher is starting up, chugging water and belching out thick oily smoke.