Duo-Divers

Not sure what these parts are, they are inside the broken up boiler

Starting near the stern, this is the top of the steering assembly and the guy here is thinking 'how do I get in?'

A view over the 'prehistoric shoreline' it's an obvious feature and can be seen on lots of shore sites.

Fore-deck equipment, in this case a single anchor chain winding unit, usually powered the holes at the top allow it to be used 'mandraulically' if required.

Round sections......it looks very similar to the cross-member on the old admiralty pattern anchor that I lifted from SoP in 2015 but not sure

Eat my camera set-up!!

Scenic stuff with light coming through the hull where the plates have gone and we are left with ribs and bits only

A Short Spined Sea-Scorpion (Myoxocephalus scorpius), a nice 'easy' fish to get nice photographs of, as you can probably tell if you go through all of the albums.

A view of the bottom plus another piece of large debris, again WTF?

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

More wreckage but a long way from SS Mistley, from its general condition and rivet pitch I would guess that it is from Yewglen and was lost during the local recovery/salvage operation!

This is the 'type' of bottom which I was talking about, formed from loads of worm tubes, it's quite soft and sandy so can feel crunchy if your buoyancy control is poor.

A grey seal pup (Halichoerus grypus) swam past and had a good look at me before........

Not as common as in Southern waters or even around Howick but here is a Lesser Spotted Catshark, or should that be dogfish? (Scyliorhinus canicula) Years ago you rarely saw any but they are becoming more common, in 2018 a party of divers got photos of a large Tope out at the Farne Islands.....apex predators you have been warned!

The seal eventually lay on the bottom and wanted to have its photo taken.....

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

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

A Common Hermit Crab (Pagurus bernhardus) this one is in a winkle shell and was quite happy trying to stare me down, cheeky little blighter!

There is still some ordanance at the stern end so don't go banging things!!!

Into Staple Sound and providing there is no current its just coarse sand and fist sized stones with some Dead mans fingers (Alcyonium digitatum) and other small creatures, not worth the swim guys!

The engine block, the shot-line is tied to this

This section is the only bit commonly found south of the boilers, you might find some bits of bow but its a swim and they may be covered in sand