Duo-Divers

A bit odd, most of the time when you see Velvet Swimming Crabs (Necora puber) they are on their legs and very agile in getting out of the way. This particular animal was hunkered down like the edible crabs.

This is the 'gutter' in the middle of the site, with the steep side and shelving northern side meeting about 1/3 way out from south skeer.

One of the observation slits on the conning tower, like 'Knights visors' these were designed to minimise the chance of shrapnel and metal splinters being blasted into the tower

I have never seen this particular species of Starfish (Echioderm) here in the North East although they are common in warm water further south or on the West Coast. Apparently this species is quite ancient.....

A common Hermit crab (Pagurus bernhardus), this one was far too small for the shell in which he had set up shop!

Picked up almost on Brownsman by the wreck of Snowdonia. Not sure what it is, it is most like a loom weight and I 'buy' that monks lived on the islands and will have weaved.

Asked the experts so let's see!

The John L coming in for a pick up on quite a blustery day

The second anchor, again of a Danfort design.

Wreckage from SS Loch Leven which foundered without the loss of life, not an oft dived site but very nice scenery plus rust!

This is the other side of the same assembly.......

Huzzah, I do like finding a tosheroon, in this case where tide and rock formation have caused a build up of lost fishing weights. You can rapidly find a huge amount of weights if you are scouring a virgin area as there tends to be quite a few of these on any length of reef

Another breech assembly, you can see where someone has cleaned the 'crud' from the brass section

The horizontal boiler, again quite good condition, I assume that its relative depth saves it from most of the pounding damage

Bits of MV Yewglen wedged and jammed into the Little Rock

So it was constructed from baulks of oak and glued and pinned together, I would have liked some brass staples but the wood was mineralised so not practical really

L - And this is how it ended up, picked up on 1st March 2018 and finished a year later 

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.

A scaling shot of the thinnest section, this one doesnt seem as tapered as others and may be a spar rather than mast......

This is the lair and just visible part of the Common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) that lives there, if you look in some of the 'squattie burrows' quite a few contain octopus that have eaten the original owner and set up shop!

A Northern Prawn (Padalus borealis) sitting on a Dead-mans finger (Alcyonium digitatum), when you slow down and l-o-o-k there are loads of these prawns all over the sites.

The site is very,very tidal and as such smothered with Dead Mans Fingers and other species, some of which are not common on any other farnes site!