Duo-Divers

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

Back quarter shot all done and pre-mounting.

The results of another successful dip on Mistley, more non-ferrous rubbish

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. To find it when you get out from the cut through Knifestone follow the wall right.

A more conventionally coloured Bloody Henry (Henerica oculata)

Arty-farty alert....again!

Plastic waste, again, arrrrgh!

Spot the seal!

J - After a few coats it started to look the part

Mid-way along the site is an area of angular boulders which go further up the wall (?) they appear new, with very little life attached' but have been there over 30 years. Look carefully and you will find crustaceans among the jumble.

Head up the slope from the boilers in a south westerly direction and you will find a jumble of winches and machinery

A Plaice (Pleoronectidae platessa)

Arty-farty shot of the wall with kelp waving in the current, I think that the cotrrect terminology is atmospheric?

The tosheroon!

Pretty sure that this is another Shanny (Lipophrys phalis) that had also set up shop in the cut off end of the pier hand rail. This one doesn't dry out but the fish wouldn't come out any further than this.

This dive I headed to the stern and this is the port side rudder

You can now look along the prop-shaft tunnel

The deeper gullies have a thick layer of grit and sand on the bottom, possibly concealing 'goodies'

A Hermit Crab (Pagurus bernhardus) had set up shop in an old whelk shell, te problem was that it was far to small and spent most of the time looking out of a hole half way down the shell!

A tiny Long Spined Sea Scorpion (Taurulus bubalis) this one was less than 10mm long!

An immature cod (Gadus) this particularly colourful and lonesome specimen is obviously going to be a 'kelp cod' that's to say one of the sub-species(?) which stay inshore all year around and turn red as they age.

This one was probably killed by a dolphin, we get quite a few white sided dolphins in the area and despite the popular public conception about friendly dolphins they actively kill porpoises so you rarely if ever see dolphins and porpoise in close proximity