The reservoir was frozen when we arrived at 8am this morning. The divers started at 10am and were in the water for 1 1/2 hours, finding 32 of the 36 pieces that were thrown in last week. After a cup of tea, Debbie went back out onto the water with an underwater metal-detector; it was her last attempt to find all the pieces. During the dive my home-made buoys didn’t help as the visibility was too low, and the divers had to find the sculpture parts by reaching out and feeling in the darkness.
The sculpture parts have been left on a verge at the edge of the reservoir – they have been lit and are partly visible from the road. I had arranged for a security firm to ‘look-after’ the sculpture and lights over-night. So I was surprised that when we arrived at 8am I met Jason, a security guard disguised as a fisherman – already on site. He said he was mixing a bit of fishing and security and had erected his tent at the edge of the reservoir. Things got complicated at 3.30pm, when I got a call from a security guard asking me where the reservoir was. Who had I given the keys to then? When Frank, another security guard, arrived we realised that there had been a double booking. Frank looked a bit bemused at the prospect of having to guard 32 pieces of marine ply.

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