Duo-Divers

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!

A large lobster (Homarus gammarus) in between two plates, these only come out at night!

Once inside there is plenty of room to move about without many intact bulkheads you'd struggle to loose your buddy too!

And this is said 'brass section' telling the gunner how to 'offnen', although I'm sure that they would have been pretty sure of what to do.....

On this particular site on this day there were loads of smallish Edible Crabs (Cancer pagurus) quite an unusual sight as they don't normally show in shallow water.

Harbour Crab (Liocarcinus depurator), quite a common critter but usually very skitterish and keen to be out of the way.

The wooden floor is disappearing over time, allowing more light to penetrate the wreck which is a double edged sword, do you want to do real penetration diving into 35m+ on a single?

A very nosey grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) the reason loads of divers visit the islands

Another footballer work of some description.......

Lost fishing net, at least its not monofilament drift or tangle net!

Nudibranch alert! This particular species appears to have electric blue tips when viewed in the water.

The site is very,very tidal and as such smothered with Dead Mans Fingers and other species, some of which are not common on any other farnes site!

A grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) the reason loads of divers visit the islands

By late summer you can't see the individual pipes on the boiler and it appears as a big dulse covered 'lump' but there is a boiler under there, honest!

The head of a Greater Pipefish (Syngnathus acus)

The pile of anchor chain, this has obviously just dropped straight out of the locker and forms a big two meter square lump in a gully

These are the outer cases built by a Sand Mason (Lanice conchilega) which filter 'bits' from the water. On occasion you can see them high and dry when there is an exceptionally low spring tide.

This is the 'gutter' in the middle of the site, with the steep side and shelving northern side meeting about 1/3 way out from south skeer.

A shot of the sea-bed in about twenty five meters off the Harcarrs, its all flat rock, small gravel beds and short drop offs.

A typical north east wreck dive, plates, boilers n bits. In this case probably Jan Van Ryswyck although a few vessels have foundered so the bits are somehwhat mixed!

Moving down the slope it starts 'easing off' and the boulders become a bit smaller....