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South of the point at Beadnell
A short walk to a nice scenic dive over a series of mini-reefs. Best to dive with minimal swell to make entry and exit easy.....don't forget your cameras!
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Trying to give some sort of sense of scale how large the rock formations stand off the bottom, in this case the goody and lift bag stand about 7ft tall
Loads of these blue fiends on this site, a Common Lobster (Homarus gammarus) this one coming forward to look at what is looking at him.
A Plaice (Pleoronectidae platessa)
Wreckage from SS Mistley, in this case from near the stern. This structure was only eally 'thrown up' after storms a couple of winters ago!
One of the attarcations is a boat, a good place to write general abuse and look for things to remove and keep (why?)
It was at about this stage that machining the trunions entered the 'too hard box', the blank was machined flat and I decided to push fit and solder in brass rod.
Christophe Badesco, a monster of the deep
Bits of MV Yewglen wedged and jammed into the Little Rock
Aa bit salty round the eyes so a tad dehydrated
Keel again.
A shaggy mouse slug, or sea mouse or more accurately Aeolidia papillosa, this one was spotted quite early in the season.
A grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) the reason loads of divers visit the islands, against a back drop of The Hopper
There are more and more Bull Huss (Scyliorhinus stellaris) in the area and this one was relatively lively and wouldn't let me get close for a photograph.
A Long Clawed Squat Lobster (Munida rugosa), this one was eating a still pulsing Lions Mane Jellyfish (Cyanea capillata)
The rocks, which are a soft 'holey' shale are coated in a pretty pink coralline growth
Another view close to the upright showing some of the hull flattened on the bottom.
Scenic stuff with light coming through the hull where the plates have gone and we are left with ribs and bits only
You get two colours of Plumose Anemone (Metridium senile) white and orange, both look like cold willies when closed up but very pretty when open and feeding!
More bits from the broken up boiler
Plastics, arrrrrrgh!
A valve identification plate, interestingly this one has raised lettering rather than details stamped in. This means that it must have been cast, a rather strange and expensive way to make simple ID plates!
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