sinking

As the celebrities showed up more and more, I got a sinking feeling: This is sending the wrong message, if it’s sending any message at all.

The sinking sparked a major search operation for Mr Taft, from Greenock, and Mr Catterson, 73, from Millport, on 24 February last year.

Until this week, one could think of it as a small, clean lifeboat, sitting off to the side of a sinking cruise ship where most of the passengers also have norovirus.

"It’s still a level of satisfaction that I feel is still sinking in because it is something I coveted and wanted to do for ever."

He told the BBC: "It was a penny dropping moment and it was a sinking feeling."