Duo-Divers

I had to add one shot of wreckage that could be identified, so you have the stern of SS Rondo which of course you recognised despite the dirty water!

A large edible crab (Cancer pagurus) in among the dead-mans fingers.

Not sure what this is......a mechanism with a brass ring on one side......could be some sort of mounting and rotational device for a searchlight?

Another 'arty-farty' showing an empty lobster pot standing on end....

In the actual 'submarine hole' it is an absolute mishmash of bits concreted onto the bottom, in this case a heavy gauge cable has been concreted onton steel and rock

Until we were lens to nose, so to speak!

This is the rounded section of stern and you can see how it's all falling apart as age causes a general degradation of the thinner steel used on these vessels, I don't think that there will be much left of the smaller vessels on the bicentennary of WW1

An odd-ball pretty with an optimistic hermit crab (Pagurus bernhardus) living half-way down a shell. The chances of it moving the shell are low to non-existant!

A Plaice (Pleuronectes platessa), relatively common around Beadnell due to the mixed ground.

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

Christophe Badesco, a monster of the deep

As you get closer to the cliff then there is more sandstone bedrock and the doleritic limestone boulders get smaller.....there are also more edible sea-urchins, not that you would!

A view from the distance, you can 'always' see the boiler but not the woodwork, or not usually the the woodwork of the hull.

Inside the plane

Bits of MV Yewglen wedged and jammed into the Little Rock

The boiler..... usually the only thing visible!

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 Common Hermit Crab (Pagurus bernhardus) this one is in a winkle shell and was quite happy trying to stare me down, cheeky little blighter!