Sea-squirts and rock boring sponge, so different from North East species!

The anchor chain, you can see a link here, is wrapped around the vessel and with the shot-line tied at one side it really is 'difficult to loose the line and have to do a blue water ascent.

A pretty little light, one of the guys thought 'deck light' but with a solid back and close to another two broken lights I would think a bulkhead light of some description, date late victorian to pre WWI.

This is a shot from the back showing that there is no path for the sunlight above the deck, it is blanked off

Another larger boiler, showing the fire hole, head from the donkey boiler back along a 10m deep zone and you'll find it.

You can now look along the prop-shaft tunnel

This is a section of I guess superstructure where the plate has long since been bashed/rusted away. There are plenty of bits like this around the site but this one, at the inshore end of the main gully, is oddball as it 'sits up' meaning that any photos can be a bit more interesting as you can get underneath as per this shot.

A typical north east wreck dive, plates, boilers n bits. In this case probably Jan Van Ryswyck although a few vessels have foundered so the bits are somehwhat mixed!

A shot showing four rods coming out from the sand clos to the propellor tip, so probably part of the engine mounting arrangement.

The divers favourite a Tompot Blenny (Parablennius gattorugine) it's probably the 'mad hair-cut' that makes them popular, this one was on the steps looking for scraps

Scenic stuff with light coming through the hull where the plates have gone and we are left with ribs and bits only

All of the time keep an eye open for Lions Mane Jellyfish (Cyanea capillata) they sting and the tentacles are a few meters long, always approach from up-tide! 

When you head 'off-piste' away from the main body there are still large lumps of wreckage

An immature cod (Gadus) this particularly colourful and lonesome specimen is obviously going to be a 'kelp cod' that's to say one of the sub-species(?) which stay inshore all year around and turn red as they age.

Getting out can be a bit of a chew over large rocks but not too problematic if you just take your time

A mast, again off into the gloom

A view over the 'prehistoric shoreline' it's an obvious feature and can be seen on lots of shore sites.

Another footballer work of some description.......

Somewhere in the welter of bubbles is a diver, getting into the water is easy, waddle from your car over the flat concrete and kinda 'fall in'

The 'fresh' Greenland Shark (Somniosus microcephalus) that was stranded at Embleton, this shot gives some indication of scale

The capstan on the fore-deck...again!

This is the top of the sternpost

This one was probably killed by a dolphin, we get quite a few white sided dolphins in the area and despite the popular public conception about friendly dolphins they actively kill porpoises so you rarely if ever see dolphins and porpoise in close proximity

Wrecky bits against the reef- face