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Cannon-ball alley
This is another deep south guide on a dive site which is a popular 'second dive' being relatively shallow and not too badly impacted by tidal influences. It's a bit of a rummage dive looking for old ordnance and don't worry none will go bang!
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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!
A view over the 'prehistoric shoreline' it's an obvious feature and can be seen on lots of shore sites.
A Long Legged Spider Crab (Macropodia rostrata) there are loads on all or most sites but this particular specimen had decided to camouflage himself with a whitish sponge.....not the best of moves!
The vis tends to be good as the bottom and walls are stone rather than silty mud like some other UK inland dive shites, ooops sites!
One of my regular buddies, Hud coming out at the bottom, to be greeted with a flash!
A Long Legged Spider Crab (Macropodia rostrata) there are loads on all or most sites, this is the most common 'camouflage'.
An immature cod (Gadus) this particularly colourful and lonesome specimen is obviously going to be a 'kelp cod' that's to say one of the sub-species(?) which stay inshore all year around and turn red as they age.
Bear with me....its the port side hawse pipe and the two 'eyes' are where the flukles of the anchor located to sop them 'bashing about' when the ship was operating at high speed or inclement seas.
Part of the engine assembly, in this case a con rod on the main shaft, not easy to get a sense of scale but it's B----I----G.
You can see that the 'wall' is more a stepped solid stone reef, smothered in life.
A Pogge (Agonus cataphractus) or is that Hook-nose or Armoured Bullhead, these are a relativeliy common critter but with their camouflage you tend to see their pearly white barbules before anything else.
The John L coming in for a pick up on quite a blustery day
Some of the armoured plates have been removed and the remaining ribs are quite photogenic
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!
Oh and of course our old friend the blue fiend or common lobster (Hommarus gammarus) loads live ion the rough ground but mainly smaller 'wiggies'
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