Two divers were on standby with oxygen masks as the girls posed for the Mail’s Andy Hooper, who used £10,000 worth of camera gear - a Nikon D300 encased in a watertight Subal housing.
Each girl had to be photographed individually because it would have been too chaotic to try to capture them all at once.
They were then ‘placed’ in a group by some computer wizardry.
The photo-shoot was carried out to back the girls’ Olympic dream, sponsored by the National Lottery and British Gas.
The Lottery is supporting more than 1,200 athletes for 2012, as well as contributing up to £2.2 billion to the Olympic venues.
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