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A brief overview of UK boat diving
This presentation was pulled together to give a brief overview of UK boat diving, everything isn't always as easy as PADI try to present so a colleague and myself decided to let people know what to expect before diving in the UK.
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The propellor from SS Abessinia, you can get some idea of scale when you see the diver hovering around it.
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!
A Long Legged Spider Crab (Macropodia rostrata) there are loads on all or most sites, this is the most common 'camouflage'.
Debris all around and most unidentifiable, in this case it's a part of a mast or kingpost arrangement, I think!
A lobster (Homarus gammarus), there are more and more blue fiends on this site, to the extent that they are being potted as shown in this shot!
Debris all around and most unidentifiable, in this case it's a frame of angle iron located adjacent to the 'horizontal boiler'.
Going up and some other bugger was on the line 'fizzin'
Everywhere that you look the bottom isn't bedrock, it is formed from sections of ship.
This is a Yarrels Blenny (Chirolophis ascanii) and stayed put for long enough for a photo or two.
Wreckage from SS Mistley, in this case from near the stern. This structure was only eally 'thrown up' after storms a couple of winters ago!
When looking for 'bits' look for colours that leap out at you, this piece of copper just doesn't blend in with the sea-bed.
Sea Hare (aplysia punctata)
A large lobster (Homarus gammarus) in between two plates, these only come out at night!
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.
Some sort of winching arrangement, this is a large section of wreckage within a short distance of the boilers
A Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris), there are loads about this year (2016) you just have to get your eye in to spot 'em.
G - With the cabinet maker doing the job machining and then joining up the three planks to a coffee table size piece
Scenic shot of the deck towards the rear of the wreck with the teak decking partially eaten away by tide, time and small animals!
Dead Mans Fingers (Alcyonium digitatum), a bit of back-lite with the strobe set-up
A grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) the reason loads of divers visit the islands, against a back drop of The Hopper
I think that this is part of the range-finder arrangement which was located on the conning tower, basically the wider apart the two sighting positions , the wider the angle and the more accurate the range calculations!
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