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Farne Island Guide - Part IV
Snowdonia (Snowden)
This guide is number four in the series and concentrates on the dive
sites rather than cover the generalities covered in Guide I.
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More non-ferrous from Mistley and this time some golf balls for good measure!
I also like Hermit Crabs (Pagurus bernhardus) and try to get a photo of them wherever I dive!
This is a head on shot of a Greater Spotted Dogfish, or Bull Huss or catshark or Nursehound (Scyliorhinus stellaris) they are becoming a more common visitor every year.
What looks like a small 'donkey boiler, it was certainly of very robust rivetted construction
A Sea Toad (Hyas araneus) hiding in among the Dead- mans fingers
An Edible Crab (Cancer pagurus), there a few of these critters about but most if not all are of a size that would mean little or no meat, that said technically they would be legal...
A high altitude gun, you would have needed some 'minerals' to be operating this even with the aeroplanes and airships of the period!
More girders and struts, this is a good distance from the main lumps of superstructure but the shallow water and big seas does increasingly move stuff about
A Tompot blenny (Parablennius gattorugine), this one was hiding in his hole and almost attached to my camera by a piece of string.....as the camera got close he retreated into his hole!
Not really sure what this chain drive will have been uised for, it's in the area of the engine room....possibly part of the ships telegraph arranegment?
To have a swim and try to........
Getting out can be a bit of a chew over large rocks but not too problematic if you just take your time
More of the steering mechanism on SS Breda
Large lengths of plastic service pipe are ideal for training in an overhead environment
A view of conditions with the sea smashing onto the end of Seahouses golf course, this storm really changed wreck topography on North facing sites with Yewglen hugely bashed about and changed
The same tower slightly further out, the slits are located around the entire diameter of the tower to allow the crew to see any assailent and take appropriate actions.
A grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) the reason loads of divers visit the islands
This is the never ending cycle, well it does end when there is no metal left, it rusts and the rust then gets washed off and the new metal rusts and.... well you get the picture
A winch which is located on the flat seabed in about 14m, well on a flat area of ship! Take care swimming around this lump as it is festooned with rope, some maybe from attempted lifts whilst others are probably from lost lobster pots.
An oyster clamped down on the pier. there were quite a few on the pier but I didn't spot any on rocks under the water.......
Looking out of the 'sea-side' of the hull, scenic but the shoals of fish are arriving before the tide turns
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