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North Carrs at Beadnell
A little more adventurous with a longer walk and surface but worth it!
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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.
Scrapyard, if you look carefully you will be able to see Albert Steptoe, he's a dirty old man!
A view on the flange end, it's all rusting nicely which is down to the bad conditions 'ripping away' the weed......the metal rusts, weeds recolonise, weeds are ripped off and around we go until there is no metal left!
A European Flounder (Platichthys flesus) quite commonly seen on dives, well ok quite often there on dives, due to their camouflage and passive nature you can get pretty close, just no sudden moves or they will zoom off.
A Common Starfish (Asterias rubens) this one was digging deep for I guess a cockle or similar that he had 'sensed'.
A Long Legged Spider Crab (Macropodia rostrata) there are loads on all or most sites, this is the most common 'camouflage'.
The rocks, which are a soft 'holey' shale are coated in a pretty pink coralline growth
A compressed air tank, as used to blow ballast from the tanks and enable the submarine to surface. There are loads of these dotted around the site, they are not torpedos, lost dive cylinders or similar and to date I haven't managed to find any with the brass valves in place.
A Short Spined Sea-Scorpion (Myoxocephalus scorpius), a nice 'easy' fish to get nice photographs of, as you can probably tell if you go through all of the albums.
I think this is a nav-light arrangement on a small 'sold' mast assembly
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
Move away from the face and you reach a jumble of boulders, some with dead-mans fingers
Nudibranch time again!
A bent anchor from the South Side of Beadnell Point
Skylights rather than portholes but it would be nice.....wouldn't it!?!
Wrecky bits against the reef- face
The ships were built for speed, with plates rivetted together, the rivets will have been made from a softer material with less cobalt/manganese so have rotted away leaving rows of holes and allowing the paltes to start slipping.
The results of another successful dip on Mistley, more non-ferrous rubbish
B - At first I thought it was a fence post but then I saw the tree nails and the penny dropped it was part of an old wooden ship!
You will certainly get a few chances for 'davit' shots on the wreck!
Arty-farty shot of the wall with kelp waving in the current, I think that the cotrrect terminology is atmospheric?
A view through the boilers from 'nearly inside'
You will also see loads of starfish, this is a sunstar (Crossaster poppasus) and these can be many shades of red-purple depending on what they have been eating.
The propellor from SS Abessinia, due to the absence of a shaft was it lost 'mid-salvage' or was this the spare cast iron part?
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