Duo-Divers

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

The closest that I can find is a lightly coloured Green Crab (Carcinus maenas) but it doesn't sit right as this one was almost orange in colour. I shall keep looking and update if I can get more details.

Being a bit of a pedant I decided that I would need to fix a point where the fishing line could be secured.....

Back in the day we refered to this as 'scrattings' where lobsters (Homarus gammarus) scraped sand from there hidey holes, you could tell that they were in residence due to the large amount of dirty sand excavated from their summer homes!

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!

A Spiny Spider Crab (Maja squinado) common enough down south on on the West Coast of Scotland but not so many around the Farne Islands.

Engine parts sticking out of the sand, I assume these held on the cylinders........

Another gratuitous 'bow shot' this wreck is real nice and in quite good condition!

And the third anchor, I am not sure why she would carry three anchors, there would be one on each side of the bows, I am guessing that there was a spare somewhere on the foredeck.

A general 'look' at the topography, in this case shallow troughs and loads of kelp

These weeds 'reached for the surface' and with the small fish swimming about they were like trees and the fish like birds, this time with the pier steps shown going into the water.

A Long Clawed Squat Lobster (Munida rugosa) this one had set up shop in an old broken bottle which I guess forms a good and secure home.

Inside the plane

The Sea hare (Aplysia punctata) a common enough critter around the uk coastline but we tend to get explosions of them every couple of years.

Over the boulders and further along the bottom becomes 'paved', again, plenty of filter feeding life but not much opportunity for crabs and lobbies.

When the sand starts having odd cobbles dotted on it then you are reaching the end and expect to see boulders and kelp again!

A Ling (Molua molua), this one zipped past me at speed and went into it's hidey hole, it was quite a size, maybe three feet long.

More of the steering mechanism on SS Breda

A common hermit crab (Pagurus bernhardus), this one was in a strange part broken shell so you could see its 'soft' backend.

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

G - With the cabinet maker doing the job machining and then joining up the three planks to a coffee table size piece

Divers on the stern section, this gives some sense of scale