Duo-Divers

The pile of anchor chain, this has obviously just dropped straight out of the locker and forms a big two meter square lump in a gully

Arty-farty shot of a pinnacle

A view of the bottom plus another piece of large debris, again WTF?

A Marbled swimming crab (Liocarcinus marmoreus), very similar to the velvet swimming crab, maybe a touch lighter in colour

This is the top of the sternpost

A view over the broken 'bottom' with a random diver. At times the site does resemble diver soup usually when prevailing conditions are poor limiting access to other areas or when the seals are in residence.

Not quite New Year but into a clarty site for a lobster

Just about to drop 'over the edge' and down to 50m+, gulp!!!

More wreckage that has just collapsed in on itself

A Red Cushion Star (Porania pulvillus) this one was half on/half off a hatch so made quite a nice subject as there was access to the top as per this shot.

That's me that is!

Deco stops can eb made less boring trying to get a photo of yourself in gas bubbles coming from guys who have just got onto the shot-line, sad but true!

Looking up inside the conning tower to one of the range finder 'holes', the brass gearing is still in place.

A view through the boilers from 'nearly inside'

And in colour, not as much 'Scream' like but you get the idea!

More divers on broken ground by the 'paved area', take care as the tide does push through piper gut at times!

A scenic of the bow, due to the previous salvage operation it has 'snapped' and fallen away from centre to left of the photograph

The mast going off into 'the gloom'

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!

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.

A common or garden Plaice (Pleuronectes platessa), get to the gritty sand and you will se a few of these tasty fish, if you are so inclined you could bag for your tea.

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!

Bimble around most sites up here in Gods country and you will soon feel like the Pied Piper with shoals of immature Coalfish (Pollachius virens) following you about hoping to grab any tasty morsel that you may dislodge or cause to break cover.

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