Scott had done business with Coastline Surveys over the past few years, and they seemed to be doing quite well. According to news accounts they were growing rapidly and taking on new projects. Then in January 2014 they filed to be wound up voluntarily…which is the UK expression for going into bankruptcy.
I have a stack of paperwork on this in storage, and will flesh out details later, but my memory is that they went under owing Scott a few hundred thousand pounds.