Duo-Divers

This particular Bloody Henry (Henerica oculata) was a vivid purple/black, something that I haven't noticed previously in the area.

Bits of MV Yewglen wedged and jammed into the Little Rock

On the West side of the site towards the South, the bottom shallows slightly and changes from grit to fist sized stones.

Atmospheric shot of a Lions Mane Jellyfish (Cyanea capillata) come late summer there are more and more close to shore, watch out that pack quite a sting!

And a mechanical 'thing'

The Staple Sound side of the site is a wall smothered in Dead mans Fingers (Alcyonium digitatum) and is a great scenic dive!

All that was missing was 'Steptoe and son', a scrapyard!

Until you reach the bottom 'proper' in about 25m of water which is gravel and sand for ever....

To have a swim and try to........

A Common Hermit Crab (Pagurus bernhardus) this one is in a winkle shell and was quite happy trying to stare me down, cheeky little blighter!

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!

The results of a successful 'bilge hunt' on Mistley, teh exposed surface of the pipe is nice and grey, the section concreted in to the rock and rust tends to be black and horrible.

A close up of some 100 year old teak decking, in the shelter this decking has lasted remarkably well and is still 'tough' and not at all spongey and falling apart.

This is the rounded section of stern and you can see how it's all falling apart as age causes a general degradation of the thinner steel used on these vessels, I don't think that there will be much left of the smaller vessels on the bicentennary of WW1

An atmospheric (arty-farty) shot showing one of the large overhangs on the North side of this site.

Treasure!

In this case a small herringbone silver chain, it'll go nice as a necklace on the silver 'art deco' figure that I blagged from SS Breda!

Usually the top of this boiler is the first thing you see when descending, you can make out the access hole for fuel and the steam pipes