Duo-Divers

Start heading west and you get to hard ground, in this case a paving of doleritc limestone cracked into almost cobble shapes.....no it isn't a Roman Road!

The closest that I can find is a lightly coloured Green Crab (Carcinus maenas) but it doesn't sit right as this one was almost orange in colour. I shall keep looking and update if I can get more details.

Every little helps....... these guys set up shop in 1879 so that is the earliest date for the mystery wreck

working down the wreck it's pretty intact so you do get to see the ship even though it's at ninety degrees to the norm

Doesn't look much but this is the tip of a propellor, a close up shot!

An arty fary half and half shot

After the 'engine bits' there is an area where it's like a giant meccano kit, protruding maybe 4ft out of the sand.

Countless divers have seen this piece of copper pipe and tried to move it....one day I shall return with a hacksaw!!

Debris all around and most unidentifiable, in this case it's a part of a mast or kingpost arrangement, I think!

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

An atmospheric (arty-farty) shot showing one of the large overhangs on the North side of this site.

You can see that the 'wall' is more a stepped solid stone reef, smothered in life.

One of the attarcations is a boat, a good place to write general abuse and look for things to remove and keep (why?)

Is it a Lesser Spotted Dogfigh.......or a Small-spotted Cat-shark? At least the scientists agree that it is Scyliorhinus canicula

A view into the propellor shaft, simply taking a bearing along the shaft and follow over the sand and you will reach the other part of the wreck

A Long Legged Spider Crab (Macropodia rostrata) there are loads on all or most sites, this is the most common 'camouflage'.

And a mechanical 'thing'

The vessel was scuttled at anchor and you can just about make out the brittle-star encrusted anchor chain just above the deck, the big smear of rust is on the top edge/side of a hawse pipe.

More bits in the jumble of machinery

A Spiny Spider Crab (Maja squinado) common enough down south on on the West Coast of Scotland but not so many around the Farne Islands.

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!