Duo-Divers

'Cut me and do I not bleed'.... Alternatively 'Clout me and do I not rust'

It was at about this stage that machining the trunions entered the 'too hard box', the blank was machined flat and I decided to push fit and solder in brass rod.

A very large, well the largest that I have ever seen Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris), she was probably a tad larger than the size mentioned as a maximum on the species, with her mantle certianly bigger than 30cm

Huge shaols of Coalfish (Pollachius virens), these were bigger boys and had chased awy the smaller baitfish. They were probably waiting to ambush any fish swept over the top of the wreck when the tide got going properly.

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 Legged Spider Crab (Macropodia rostrata) there are loads on all or most sites, this is the most common 'camouflage'.

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!

The entry to the tunnel, it's straight with no real hazards but when you go in you cant see the end so not for the faint hearted!

A shot of the sea-bed in about twenty five meters off the Harcarrs, its all flat rock, small gravel beds and short drop offs.

Another bit of a small windlass arrangement, or alternatively as it is in a certain location part of the lifting tackle that was mounted on the masts and superstructure of the vessel?

This is a section of I guess superstructure where the plate has long since been bashed/rusted away. There are plenty of bits like this around the site but this one, at the inshore end of the main gully, is oddball as it 'sits up' meaning that any photos can be a bit more interesting as you can get underneath as per this shot.

A high altitude gun, you would have needed some 'minerals' to be operating this even with the aeroplanes and airships of the period!

Flat bits of plate, be that deck or hull are all over the site, I think they are deck as they are flat with very little in the way of thick metal ribs, but I do get things wrong.

Loads of these blue fiends on this site, a Common Lobster (Homarus gammarus) this one coming forward to look at what is looking at him.

It's here in the more stable bottom where when you look you can see......

A section of the bottom of the hull (I guess) which is double bottomed, this is certainly from MV Yewglen and quite large, maybe 10 yards square

Work over the site and you will see odd bits of iron jammed into cracks and fissures on the sea-bed

A pile of coins! From a modern 20p piece to some very old stuff it collects and stays there until such a time as the sand is moved by a storm

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

A scrap brass flange from Yewglen, this one was from the rubbish area by the boiler, or should I say where the boiler was!

Part of the stern section of SS Mistley, there is a small area where the girder construction is still present and maybe 1m above the seabed.

Another shot of the propellor tip, this time from the side, maybe looking at the two shots it makes sense.

A Sea-Hare (Aplysia punctata) these large nudibranch come in a variety of colours, depending I think on what they have been eating.

More dulse covered iron-work, this time a Ballan Wrasse is heading off at a rate of knots!