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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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Looking along the front of the promenade deck, the windows have long gone but the frames remain.
A very scenic dip with dead mans fingers (Alcyonium digitatum) covering hard rock with boulders in some of the larger gullies.
A view from the distance, you can 'always' see the boiler but not the woodwork, or not usually the the woodwork of the hull.
Some sort of dead-eye or similar, this just sits in the middle of one of the gullies
A Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris), there are loads about this year (2016) you just have to get your eye in to spot 'em.
Everywhere that you look the bottom isn't bedrock, it is formed from sections of ship, in some cases folded over and over forming very useful lobbie lairs
Everywhere that you look the bottom isn't bedrock, it is formed from sections of ship.
A grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) the reason loads of divers visit the islands
This is what remains of the bows, when the plates fell apart the bow fell forward as the supporting structure had been removed
A Bloody Henry (Henricia oculata) common enough but a splash of purple on a dive!
A close up of some 100 year old teak decking, in the shelter this decking has lasted remarkably well and is still 'tough' and not at all spongey and falling apart.
Plates and spars towards the stern of the wreck
This is the top of the sternpost
Round sections......it looks very similar to the cross-member on the old admiralty pattern anchor that I lifted from SoP in 2015 but not sure
Go out, south, and the bottom turns to big rocks surrounded by grit. Unfortunately it's all very mobile as you will see from the wave form of the sand, this means no scallops!
A smallish lobster (Homarus gammarus) out for a stroll in-among the kelp and weed.
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