Duo-Divers

A long Clawed squat Lobster (Munida rogosa), these critters can be seen all over the dive sites once you get down to around the 15m mark

Back in the day we refered to this as 'scrattings' where lobsters (Homarus gammarus) scraped sand from there hidey holes, you could tell that they were in residence due to the large amount of dirty sand excavated from their summer homes!

And the associated rudder post, looking at the height of this bit I don't think that the boat was especially large but stand to be corrected when I do a bit more research.

Looking up at the side of the wreck you can see that plates, in this case' have fallen away or in some instances blasted to get at more valuable metal within enclosed spaces.

Loads of these blue fiends on this site, a Common Lobster (Homarus gammarus) this one coming forward to look at what is looking at him.

The Staple Sound side of the site is a wall smothered in Dead mans Fingers (Alcyonium digitatum) and is a great scenic dive!

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

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

More identifiable bits, the steam powered windlass that was mounted near the bow, the main steel mast in lying to the left (North) up and onto a reef and there are bits of bollard and the like adjacent.

A 'scaling shot' of the largest diameter section, you can only see the top of this pieces poking out from the sand

There are more and more Bull Huss (Scyliorhinus stellaris) in the area and this one was relatively lively and wouldn't let me get close for a photograph.

Once inside there is plenty of room to move about without many intact bulkheads you'd struggle to loose your buddy too. The floor was wood with no metal plate behind so it's rotting away rapidly.

That 'light-bulb' moment, this is the slightly bent bit that made me think 'keel' it doesn't move and has that 'look' about it. I will need to clout and see if it is solid or a 'U' section with wood inside.

All turned and time to polish!

More bits in the jumble of machinery

By late summer the once bare stems of the kelp are little microcosms of weeds and small animals, the winter storms smashes everything up but twelve months later it's all back.

Round sections......it looks very similar to the cross-member on the old admiralty pattern anchor that I lifted from SoP in 2015 but not sure

Calypso.....ready for anything that the world can throw at her!

A Long Legged Spider Crab (Macropodia rostrata) there are loads on all or most sites, this one didn't have a huge amount of camouflage, I guess that he had recently shed his exoskeleton