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This sponge, sometimes known as Goose Bump sponge (Dysidea fragilis) are are over the site, you can see them on the general topography photograph in this album
Anchor chain.....
On the West side of the site towards the South, the bottom shallows slightly and changes from grit to fist sized stones.
A moon Jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) another common species that doesn't sting so you can get up close and personal without being concerned about needing your buddy to pee on the stings!
A lesser spotted dogfish (Scyliorhinus conicula), well actually there were half a dozen under the plate!
At the stern there is evidence of anchor chains
More dulse covered iron-work, this time a Ballan Wrasse is heading off at a rate of knots!
Looks like (Parazoanthus anguicomus) a type of creature called an encrusting anemone. Usually but not always found in deep water so maybe not!
These Spiny Starfish (Marthasterias glacialis) are very common and again in common with most starfish a good subject for macro work as you can get close and take very good textural and close up shots.
This is the remains of the wooden salvage dock that sank during operations, it's even less photogenic than the ship and connected via a length of blue poly-prop rope so that divers can go from one to the other in a single dive
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!
All polished
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'
A bent anchor from the South Side of Beadnell Point
Large areas of the wreck are now down to the ribs, as can be seen on this shot
A Long Legged Spider Crab (Macropodia rostrata) there are loads on all or most sites, this is the most common 'camouflage'.
This is a Yarrels Blenny (Chirolophis ascanii) and stayed put for long enough for a photo or two.
Looking up inside the conning tower to one of the range finder 'holes', the brass gearing is still in place.
More scrap.....I love it!!
A very nosey grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) the reason loads of divers visit the islands
Part of the stern section of SS Mistley, there is a small area where the girder construction is still present and maybe 1m above the seabed.
Football sea squirts (Diazona violacea), again lots of these very simple animals inhabit the outside of the hull of SS Rondo.
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