Duo-Divers

Some times all that you see are grip wires sticking out of the sand.......

The star of the show the letter 'O' from the ships nameplate for the lost Loch Leven, a nice trinket!

Football sea squirts (Diazona violacea), again lots of these very simple animals inhabit the outside of the hull of SS Rondo.

The 'fresh' Greenland Shark (Somniosus microcephalus) that was stranded at Embleton, this shot gives some indication of scale

A bored Hud doing deco

A very large, well the largest that I have ever seen Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris), she was sitting on-top of a rock pretending to be weed but had the 'wrong' colouration, the skin texture was right though!

A Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris), there are loads about this year (2016) you just have to get your eye in to spot 'em.

I think this is a nav-light arrangement on a small 'sold' mast assembly

George Jacob run by the Marine Quest at Eyemouth

More shots of the debris field, later in the year so a 'better' water colour!

Common edible and tasty lobster (homarus gammarus) the area is home to a multitude of them!

A Plaice (Pleoronectidae platessa)

On this shot you can see the ribs and some of the remaining steel hull plate plus the sea-bed, not sure how long it has been since this much sand and rock was washed from the site.

Kelp (Family laminariales) does tend to be quite a long lived plant with the stem above say the first twenty centimeters quite a safe place for a plant to grow without the risk of sea-urchins 'browsing' you away. In this case dulse and other sea-weed encases the stem, making an eco-system up in the water column!

A grey seal (Halichoerus grypus), the mother (?) keeping an eye on the young seals the reason loads of divers visit the islands

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 was half expecting to see waves and spray 'freeze' in mid-air.....

A long Clawed squat Lobster (Munida rogosa), these critters can be seen all over the dive sites once you get down to around the 15m mark

A general 'look' at the topography, in this case shallow troughs and loads of kelp

Just a random scenic shot, its a big old wreck