Duo-Divers

The cock-pit, you can see that all removeable bits have gone, that's the good old UK diver for you!

Looking along the wreckage of the Mistley, you can see the ribs or joints on the bottom.

Following questions to experts they are all agreed that it was a 'porpoise' with the natural history museum going a bit further and saying 'probably' a harbour porpoise.

This smaller donkey boiler is standing on one of the flate ends and large sections of the outer case have, over the years, come adrift meaning that you can look in on the various tubes and pipes.

Looking up through a hole in the bottom of the boat, the surface is about 14m away, boy it's clear!

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!

Drop over to the 'hull side' of the vessel and it's still pretty messed around.

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!

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

The lower mounting position where the pin would fit with a wrist mounted compass to give some sort of scale

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

A rather large Sea-Squirt

Settling down on a patch of gravel and waiting until I bimbled over.......

What looks like a small 'donkey boiler, it was certainly of very robust rivetted construction

A Painted Goby (Pomatoschistus pictus) a very common small fish that follows divers around hoping that some small creatures, its next meal, are dislodged.

A lions Mane Jellyfish (Cyanea capillata) moving past with the prevailing tide, the long stingers on these beggars can be 3m long and be left on shot ropes sooooo, dont approach them without caustion and wear gloves!

A view into the propellor shaft, simply taking a bearing along the shaft and follow over the sand and you will reach the other part of the wreck