Duo-Divers

You will certainly get a few chances for 'davit' shots on the wreck!

A lesser spotted dogfish (Scyliorhinus conicula), well actually there were half a dozen under the plate!

Something for a sense of scale, I hope!

The common edible crab (cancer pagarus) you tend to get only smaller ones in shallow water but there are still plenty of them about.

Common edible and tasty lobster (homarus gammarus) the area is home to a multitude of them!

View two of a bilge sieve, these were fitted to the open ends of bilge pipes to make sure that no large crud which may block the pump could be drawn into the system.

Is it a Lesser Spotted Dogfigh.......or a Small-spotted Cat-shark? At least the scientists agree that it is Scyliorhinus canicula

There are more and more dahlia anemone (Urticina felina) appearing on the site, I do worry that a hard winter storm will dislodge and kill most of them but hey!

The sternpost of the Mistley is maybe 20 yards away next to a large pinnacle, I guess that she hit the pinnacle before foundering closer to land

As you approach the debris field you will find little lengths of lead coated wiring sticking out of the sand or protruding from under stones.

After throwing yourself in you can look back up the rock-face......nice

A small Common Hermit Crab (Pagurus bernhardus) in a discarded winkle shell, the bottom of the site is crawling with these critters, searching for food, squabbling with their brethern over shells and generally going about their daily business!

A Tompot blenny (Parablennius gattorugine), this one was sitting out in the open.

A bit of pipe, you can see the brazed joint along with a 50p piece for a bit of scale

And the business end of the same gun, in this case a crab has set-up shop but most of the time they are home to conger eels!

A Tompot blenny (Parablennius gattorugine), this one was hiding in his hole and almost attached to my camera by a piece of string.....as the camera got close he retreated into his hole!

All that was missing was 'Steptoe and son', a scrapyard!

Another partially cleaned brass breech block.......