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Ten UK dives you might just manage
I wrote this article following on from the social media lists of 'must do' dives, I hope you enjoy reading it and look forward to your feedback on your favourite UK dives!
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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!
Starboard side and the wreck is slowly disappearing on a flooding tide...
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.....
And the business end of the same gun, in this case a crab has set-up shop but most of the time they are home to conger eels!
King scallop (Pecten maximus) not a huge amount of 'live ones' here but loads of shells from where they are gutted by divers. Those present seem to have been 'thrown back' by divers who realise that they were undersized!
Scrapyard, if you look carefully you will be able to see Albert Steptoe, he's a dirty old man!
I messed around with the images as the three larger holes do have a look of 'The Scream' by Munch, what do you think?
The anchor chain, you can see a link here, is wrapped around the vessel and with the shot-line tied at one side it really is 'difficult to loose the line and have to do a blue water ascent.
Some sort of dead-eye or similar, this just sits in the middle of one of the gullies
A 'random wreckage' shot, you can see the rope and shattered pot, so go steady on these dives as there are trapping hazards about.
Looking along the wreckage of the Mistley, you can see the ribs or joints on the bottom.
This dive I headed to the stern and this is the port side rudder
A grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) doing 'cute' the reason loads of divers visit the islands
The underside of SS Rondo is covered with Peacock Worms Sabella pavonina) get too close and they 'snap' closed so approach very....very....very slowly and start snapping when you are in range and still moving forward.
Gas works!
Is it a Lesser Spotted Dogfigh.......or a Small-spotted Cat-shark? At least the scientists agree that it is Scyliorhinus canicula
A Sea lemon (Dorididae) on dull purple sea-weed, these nudibranchs are always easy to spot and this shows why!
Lost fishing line, sometimes obvious, other times not so. Always take some cutting gear and never try to snap braid using fingers or hands!
The entry to the tunnel, it's straight with no real hazards but when you go in you cant see the end so not for the faint hearted!
A Long Legged Spider Crab (Macropodia rostrata) there are loads on all or most sites, this is the most common 'camouflage'.
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