Duo-Divers

Believe it or not a Gravel Sea Cucumber (Neopentadadactyla mixta) under the tentacles there is a creature living in a hole!

A common hermit crab (Pagurus bernhardus), I just couldn't get it to stay still to get a shot of it's back end!

And here is the business end, not really good as you cant get a sense of scale

As is my wont a scenic shot of the bows.

A brass RN sailors button, I would have thought that there would be a story behind this, was it from a dead body washed ashore during the wars?

As always on wrecks watch out for bits and pieces sticking up that look a bit 'kelpy' but are metal. They can be sharp and will damage you and your dive suit! Be warned!

A grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) the reason loads of divers visit the islands

More bits in the jumble of machinery

G - With the cabinet maker doing the job machining and then joining up the three planks to a coffee table size piece

Another topographical shot, stacked, shelfed rock going into a small gully.

Think that this is a Montagus Blenny (Coryphoblennius galerita) there were always plenty warming themselves on the steps. The fact that the seals are fed fish there and there will be 'bits' also probably attracts them!

A shot of the sea-bed in about twenty five meters off the Harcarrs, its all flat rock, small gravel beds and short drop offs.

Plastic waste.....................arrrrrgh!

Snale Locks Anemone (Anemonia viridis) another species common in Southern and Scottish west coast waters but not in the North East. I always look for the spider crab that lives with these anemones but have yet to spot one, perhaps sometime in the future?

The rudders, these stand about 6m proud of the bottom of the vessel and are intact despite the explosive forces used to remove the phosphor bronze propellors which were located very, very close.

Same guy and those orange dry-gloves didn't half reflect the light!

Not as common as in Southern waters or even around Howick but here is a Lesser Spotted Catshark, or should that be dogfish? (Scyliorhinus canicula) Years ago you rarely saw any but they are becoming more common, in 2018 a party of divers got photos of a large Tope out at the Farne Islands.....apex predators you have been warned!

The joint 'tween twelve inch gun and turret at one of the rear guns, these are some size!

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.

The wheels? Well oak obviously but I set in a rim of lead sheet recovered from the sea of course!

Settling down on a patch of gravel and waiting until I bimbled over.......