Duo-Divers

Looking back towards the Carnatic from the bowsprit, Abu Nuhas Reef

A view of the business end of an Angler-fish (Lophius piscatorious) there are loads about the sites and once you've spotted one they become easier to see.

I also had the cascabel end engraved, a nice touch I thought.

By late summer the once bare stems of the kelp are little microcosms of weeds and small animals, the winter storms smashes everything up but twelve months later it's all back.

Doesn't look much but this is the tip of a propellor, a close up shot!

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 shoal of sardines scurried past at one point, nothing large chasing though!

Countless divers have seen this piece of copper pipe and tried to move it....one day I shall return with a hacksaw!!

Large sections of plate have fallen away leaving coourful ribs, spars anmd superstructure all over

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

A small shellfish, probably some type of oyster. I took this photograph as I have never seen one before and thought it may be a 'foreign invader', it isn't!

A scenic of one of the masts, snapped where it goes over some other wreckage, going away from the body of the wreck

Bloody plastic waste, arrrrrrgh!

I decided to hold the wheels in place with brazed end caps

Typical geology, the surfaces are covered in Dead mans fingers (Alcyonium digitatum), the bottom being small vertical faces, rocks and large boulders....all very scenic and pretty in good vis!

Believe it or not a Gravel Sea Cucumber (Neopentadadactyla mixta) under the tentacles there is a creature living in a hole!

This is a head on shot of a Greater Spotted Dogfish, or Bull Huss or catshark or  Nursehound (Scyliorhinus stellaris) they are becoming a more common visitor every year.

On the southern side the edge is under-cut close to the deep gutter, with various critters living in the space under the rock

If you look down into the heavily salvaged engine space you can see the prop shaft, the hole down is about 20m to the inverted deck, quite a drop.....

More lead scupper from Mistley, this stuff was from about mid-ship on the keel line so I am guessing that they were pretty much feeding straight into the pump, which has probably long gone.