Duo-Divers

A view of the sections of masts if you are heading away from the Hopper, they are in a section of sand filled gully at the base of the rock face

A view inside a deck gun, this one has a more intact breech assembly and you can make out the various gubbins

Looking along the wreckage of the Mistley, you can see the ribs or joints 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

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

Debris all around and most unidentifiable, in this case it's a part of a mast or kingpost arrangement, I think!

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.....

A lobster (Homarus gammarus), there are more and more blue fiends on this site, to the extent that they are being potted as shown in this shot!

A Painted goby (Pomatoschistus pictus) these are really common and will follow you around looking for any morsels that may be disturbed, but try and get one to stay still long enough to get a photograph.......

A crushed brass bell! An ornament? It looks too small to be fitted to a door so I really have no idea but again interesting.

The prop shaft 'sans' prop! The propellor was made from high cost non-ferrous materials, phosphor bronze etc and an easy win for whoever was salvor in possession at the time.

Even more bits from the broken up boiler.......

Gas works!

'Cut me and do I not bleed'.... Alternatively 'Clout me and do I not rust'

Back in the day we refered to this as 'scrattings' where lobsters (Homarus gammarus) scraped sand from there hidey holes, you could tell that they were in residence due to the large amount of dirty sand excavated from their summer homes!

This Pink (or Northern) Prawn (Pandalus montagui) was being actively stalked by a Common Lobster (Homarus Gammarus), you can see the lobbies claws!

These Spiny Starfish (Marthasterias glacialis) are very common and again in common with most starfish a good subject for macro work as you can get close and take very good textural and close up shots.

Another topographical shot, stacked, shelfed rock going into a small gully.

The stern section of Mistley has been really scoured with an extra meter of depth now available, with all of the solid stuff exposed there has been a significant amount of non-ferrous scrap shifted this year

Bits of MV Yewglen wedged and jammed into the Little Rock

A shot showing four rods coming out from the sand clos to the propellor tip, so probably part of the engine mounting arrangement.

Sponges tend to have colonised kelp by late in the season, I think that this particular sponge is Stelletta lactea but I could be wrong.

A bit of a clincher regarding the dating of a wreck.

I think it was 1858 when sailing ships were compelled to carry a red port lamp and 1837 for steam ships.

If you find any glass from lights then you can date the sinking from after these dates.