Duo-Divers

A Velvet Swimming Crab (Necora puber) this one was worth a photo as it had a starfish set up shop on its shell

Not sure what these sections are or did but there are several on the site so unless they form an integral part of a gun carriage we can say that the pipes are not cannon

Dropping to the bottom about eighty meters from the cliff face and you are faced with a bottom comprising of boulders with coarse sand between them, the boulders vary in size from the size of cars to maybe a meter cubed.

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.

Part of the engine assembly, in this case a con rod on the main shaft, not easy to get a sense of scale but it's B----I----G.

A large lobster (Homarus gammarus) in between two plates, these only come out at night!

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

The barrels just 'go off' into the gloom, wow!

Plastics, arrrrrrgh!

A Pogge (Agonus cataphractus) or is that Hook-nose or Armoured Bullhead, these are a relativeliy common critter but with their camouflage you tend to see their pearly white barbules before anything else.

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 Long Clawed Squat Lobster (Munida rugosa) I tried to get something a bit different for this shot, not sure if it worked.

These are the outer cases built by a Sand Mason (Lanice conchilega) which filter 'bits' from the water. On occasion you can see them high and dry when there is an exceptionally low spring tide.

A view on what I guess is the gearbox arrangement which would enable the propellor to go forwards...stop...reverse

This is a top third shot of a Greater Spotted Dogfish, or Bull Huss or catshark or  Nursehound (Scyliorhinus stellaris) they are becoming a more common visitor every year.

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!

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

A grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) the reason loads of divers visit the islands

A crushed brass bell! An ornament? It looks too small to be fitted to a door so I really have no idea but again interesting.

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

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 bottom as per this shot.

The joint 'tween twelve inch gun and turret at one of the rear guns, these are some size!

First containment done.......

This was a bloody funny shaped fishing weight, quite heavy too, so I took a photo!

The rock face on 'The Hopper', its a straight drop into about 18m of water, with little or no weed, only a little kelp near the top of the face and then some filter feeders lower down. A lovely little site!