Another Day At Sea sees Dyer in reportage mode. What is essentially a series of interviews with crew is interweaved with reflections on his boyhood obsession with World War II aircraft and his inability to come to terms with the scale of the ship, both the vastness of everything on the flight deck and the cramped, trip-hazard of everything below it. A kind of literary, and much funnier, Louis Theroux, Dyer uses his self-consciousness about his height and weediness, and his pickiness over the food and lodgings, as a way to get the hyper-patriotic, super-fit, and preternaturally hard-working crew to open up to him.

This works incredibly well. While his interactions with flight deck controllers, medical officers, and the captain’s cook provide endless opportunities for the comic juxtaposition of British scepticism and irony with American vigour and uplift, ultimately Another Great Day At Sea is a surprisingly touching account of Dyer’s growing, at times even teary, admiration for these people, who for the most part saw few opportunities for themselves outside of a life serving their country and who are determined to make the most of it.