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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 scenic of some of the ribs, again plates missing and loads of brittle stars and 'poor cod'
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
Sea Hare (aplysia punctata) you get loads and loads of them on the south side of the point feeding and breeding!
Scenic stuff with light coming through the hull where the plates have gone and we are left with ribs and bits only
A Short Spined Sea-Scorpion (Myoxocephalus scorpius), a nice 'easy' fish to get nice photographs of, as you can probably tell if you go through all of the albums.
Fore-deck equipment, in this case a single anchor chain winding unit, usually powered the holes at the top allow it to be used 'mandraulically' if required.
On the West side of the site towards the South, the bottom shallows slightly and changes from grit to fist sized stones.
Ahhhh, bollards! Well at least this is an identifiable lump in the middle of the wreckage
Head up the slope from the boilers in a south westerly direction and you will find a jumble of winches and machinery
An arty shot of a Spider Crab (Maja brachydactylus), can you spot the eye?
Some of the boulders have quite a cap of filter feeders and look pretty!
Getting out can be a bit of a chew over large rocks but not too problematic if you just take your time
I was half expecting to see waves and spray 'freeze' in mid-air.....
One of the gun barrels, SMS Brummer was primarily a mine laying crusier so the guns were used to bully anything smaller and the engines to outrun anything bigger!
A Sand Brittle Star (Ophiura ophiura), on the deeper wrecks there were odd ones on the sea-bed rather than the thick carpet of brittles seen on the shallower stuff.
Debris all around and most unidentifiable, in this case it's a section of hull plating.
Looking along the wreckage of the Mistley, you can see the ribs or joints on the bottom.
A bit of pipe, you can see the brazed joint along with a 50p piece for a bit of scale
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!
This is a section of I guess superstructure where the plate has long since been bashed/rusted away. There are plenty of bits like this around the site but this one, at the inshore end of the main gully, is oddball as it 'sits up' meaning that any photos can be a bit more interesting as you can get underneath as per this shot.
More s'cenic stuff 'showing the hull rent where the engine room has been blasted open.
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