Duo-Divers

A Sea lemon (Dorididae) on dull purple sea-weed, these nudibranchs are always easy to spot and this shows why!

Bits of MV Yewglen wedged and jammed into the Little Rock

A more conventionally coloured Bloody Henry (Henerica oculata)

After throwing yourself in you can look back up the rock-face......nice

Wreckage from SS Loch Leven which foundered without the loss of life, not an oft dived site but very nice scenery plus rust!

A crushed brass bell! An ornament? It looks too small to be fitted to a door so I really have no idea but again interesting.

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.

Girders and struts from I am assuming the top structure of MV Yewglen

A mast, again off into the gloom

I just dropped outside of the hull at this point as I was 'bored', hopefully some sense of scale for both vis and wreck size

The concreted in anchor, this is located on its own 'up' the gully on the seaward side of the Hopper rock

If the skipper 'drops a goolie' and puts you in 'off' the guns then finding them in this kelp can be challenging to say the least

There is coal everywhere on this and the other sites

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!

The Staple Sound side of the site is a wall smothered in Dead mans Fingers (Alcyonium digitatum) and is a great scenic dive!

Sea-squirts and rock boring sponge, so different from North East species!

Lobsters (Hommarus gammarus) in a pot, I think that these will be put back as they are 'borderline'.

A grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) the reason loads of divers visit the islands, against a back drop of The Hopper

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!