Duo-Divers

A Hermit Crab (Pagurus bernhardus) had set up shop in an old whelk shell, te problem was that it was far to small and spent most of the time looking out of a hole half way down the shell!

The softer compound rivets are also rotting away on this wreck

The joys of a 'professional-hobbyist' (?) lathe is that you can carry out tweaks, in this case off-setting the blank so that I didn't need to set the lathe up to taper turn, rather the work-piece was off-set.

A scenic of the bow, due to the previous salvage operation it has 'snapped' and fallen away from centre to left of the photograph

The picked bones of a dead creature, probably a fish, most probably a wrasse caught and returned by anglers.

Work over the site and you will see odd bits of iron jammed into cracks and fissures on the sea-bed

Anchor chain.....

Dropping down, with a stone floor and walls the vis is uaually very good

Looking along the foredeck of the wreck, it's been heavily salvaged so not a lot of 'Ahhhhhh its a' type photos!

L - And this is how it ended up, picked up on 1st March 2018 and finished a year later 

Maybe not totally original but having bullied the crab I pushed my torch inside the barrel of this gun..............

The divers favourite a Tompot Blenny (Parablennius gattorugine) it's probably the 'mad hair-cut' that makes them popular.

Bimble around most sites up here in Gods country and you will soon feel like the Pied Piper with shoals of immature Coalfish (Pollachius virens) following you about hoping to grab any tasty morsel that you may dislodge or cause to break cover. the knack is working back on yourself to get a photograph!

All turned and time to polish!

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.

Part of the wreck is covered in a large net, which hanging over the window looks quite nice.

Near the end of the dive I was surrounded by a huge shoal of Saithe (Pollachius virens) unfortunately the silty water didn't do justice to the sheer amount of fish that were all around me, amazing!