Duo-Divers

A scenic of some of the ribs, again plates missing and loads of brittle stars and 'poor cod'

The back end of a lobster (Homarus gammarus).

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!

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

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 view of the business end of an Angler-fish (Lophius piscatorious) there are loads about the sites and once you've spotted one they become easier to see.

The concreted in anchor, this is located on its own 'up' the gully on the seaward side of the Hopper rock

Girders and struts from I am assuming the top structure of MV Yewglen

E - And based on the black colouration it was quite old, it was confirmed by experts that the timber was circa 17th century so very, very old!

Inside the plane

A pair of breeding Edible Crabs (Cancer pagurus)  The male will carry around the female until she sheds to make sure that it's his sperm that is used to fertilise the eggs.

One of the hull plates, which as you can see were double rivetted in place, a much more time consuming method of construction than welding which was made commonplace during WWII

Near the end of the dive I was surrounded by a huge shoal of Saithe (Pollachius virens) unfortunately the silty water didn't do justice to the sheer amount of fish that were all around me, amazing!

Part of the anchor assembly that is concreted into the sea-bed, you can see the anchor behind the main, round, rusty bit

This is the 'type' of bottom which I was talking about, formed from loads of worm tubes, it's quite soft and sandy so can feel crunchy if your buoyancy control is poor.

An arty fary half and half shot

Common Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis), probably why a lot of 'non-locals' dive Babbacombe, I was a touch late this year.

A section of the bottom of the hull (I guess) which is double bottomed, this is certainly from MV Yewglen and quite large, maybe 10 yards square