Duo-Divers

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!

A view of the same boiler showing the steam pipes. I have never seen a huge amount of blue fiends living in the boiler which is odd, but whenever someone shots it with pots they fill up, so I guess that they live deep inside.....

If you look down into the heavily salvaged engine space you can see the prop shaft, the hole down is about 20m to the inverted deck, quite a drop.....

One of the spotting masts, I am assuming that there is a ladder inside for the crew to climb up to the exposed station located high above the deck

Bits of MV Yewglen wedged and jammed into the Little Rock

A smaller meshed net also hangs into the top deck on the port side, it's really obvious and easy to navigate around.

A view on the flange end, it's all rusting nicely which is down to the bad conditions 'ripping away' the weed......the metal rusts, weeds recolonise, weeds are ripped off and around we go until there is no metal left!

Plastic waste, again, arrrrgh!

Bloody plastic waste, arrrrrrgh!

You will find this particular sponge all over 'shallow' sites around the Northumbrian coast, not being an expert I can only guess that it is Stelletta lactea and if someone wishes to correct me then great!

This particular Bloody Henry (Henerica oculata) was a vivid purple/black, something that I haven't noticed previously in the area.

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. the knack is working back on yourself to get a photograph!

Is it a Lesser Spotted Dogfigh.......or a Small-spotted Cat-shark? At least the scientists agree that it is Scyliorhinus canicula

Caught a fraction of a second prior to a zoom away exit a Common Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis), probably why a lot of 'non-locals' dive Babbacombe, I was a touch late this year.

A Long Legged Spider Crab (Macropodia rostrata) there are loads on all or most sites, this is the most common 'camouflage'.

Dropping down, with a stone floor and walls the vis is uaually very good

A Common Hermit Crab (Pagurus bernhardus) this one is in a winkle shell and was quite happy trying to stare me down, cheeky little blighter!

Another genus Crispea nudibranch, not the best of images and one of the reasons why I decided to fit optical patches to my mask!

If you drop down you will find cracks, crevices, nooks and crannies but the darkness does restrict life a little

A very large, well the largest that I have ever seen Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris), she was out and about for a full day so I guess that she was replete having eaten crab and either was enjoying a post-paradial sun bathing session or had a full stomach meaning she couldn't get in and out of her hole with ease!

The back end of a shaggy mouse slug, or sea mouse or more accurately Aeolidia papillosa, this one was spotted quite early in the season.

It's always a good idea to keep looking up when swimming close to the rock-face as you will get shoals of baitfish, be that 'brit' or sandeels swimming around and if your luck is in you may see them being attacked by predators, be that avian or piscine!

Flat bits of plate, be that deck or hull are all over the site, I think they are deck as they are flat with very little in the way of thick metal ribs, but I do get things wrong.

A square 'chute' standing upright, pre-2019 this was flat so the storms have obvioulsy shifted about. I could have done with being lower to take a 'thru-photo' and a subject at the other side would have been good.

The picked bones of a dead creature, probably a fish, most probably a wrasse caught and returned by anglers.

Girders and bits and bats that have flattened onto the bed-rock in the main gully