Duo-Divers

You can see the sweep of the bow on this shot and a few of the ribs sticking out of the sand

A Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris), there are loads about this year (2016) you just have to get your eye in to spot 'em.

After throwing yourself in you can look back up the rock-face......nice

A Common Starfish (Asterias rubens) this one was digging deep for I guess a cockle or similar that he had 'sensed'.

Flat bits of plate, be that deck or hull are all over the site, I think they are deck as they are flat with very little in the way of thick metal ribs, but I do get things wrong.

On one particular stone there were loads of Candy striped flatworms (Prostheceraeus vittatus), not sure why as adjacent areas were devoid.

The second anchor, again of a Danfort design.

The general topography...... the rocks are not as smooth as you may expect considering the considerable tidal forces but the surfaces are smothered with various filter feeders which thrive in the oft moving flow!

In some areas the broken bottom comprises of large stones covered in life, strange that there is a centre section almost devoid of filters feeders.....

This is the lair and just visible part of the Common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) that lives there, if you look in some of the 'squattie burrows' quite a few contain octopus that have eaten the original owner and set up shop!

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

The back end of a lobster (Homarus gammarus).

Bits of MV Yewglen wedged and jammed into the Little Rock

A Marbled swimming crab (Liocarcinus marmoreus), very similar to the velvet swimming crab, maybe a touch lighter in colour

A smallish edible crab or Cancer pagurus, these seem to be more common on shallow shore dives.

Not all rust, here is a Dragonet (Callionymus lyra)

I messed around with the images as the three larger holes do have a look of 'The Scream' by Munch, what do you think?

Lost fishing line, sometimes obvious, other times not so. Always take some cutting gear and never try to snap braid using fingers or hands!