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SS Thesis re-visited
Although the original guide for this wreck is contained in the general overview guide it has really changed beyond belief and as such I have produced a new guide which is much more relevant.
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Latest Photographs
This sponge, sometimes known as Goose Bump sponge (Dysidea fragilis) are are over the site, you can see them on the general topography photograph in this album
Ahhhhh a danforth anchor, all alone and loitering, probably just under a metric tonne here!
Arty-farty shot of a pinnacle
A very scenic dip with dead mans fingers (Alcyonium digitatum) covering hard rock with boulders in some of the larger gullies.
A plaice (Pleuronectes platessa), an unusal sight for the northern diver and if big enough most frequently seen impaled on a knife!
The bows of SS Breda, or at least the very front of the cut down bow section after she was wire cut to 28ft.
A King....or Common....or Great Scallop (Pecten maximus), can you see him?
The propellor, don't go past as there is nothing else to see!
On the West side of the site, towards the North end. It looks ideal for scallops but no sign of any or indeed empty predated shells.
These are the outer cases built by a Sand Mason (Lanice conchilega) which filter 'bits' from the water. On occasion you can see them high and dry when there is an exceptionally low spring tide.
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!
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?
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 very large, well the largest that I have ever seen Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris), eyes down!
Bimble around most sites up here in Gods country and you will soon feel like the Pied Piper with shoals of immature Coalfish (Pollachius virens) following you about hoping to grab any tasty morsel that you may dislodge or cause to break cover. the knack is working back on yourself to get a photograph!
On this particular site on this day there were loads of smallish Edible Crabs (Cancer pagurus) quite an unusual sight as they don't normally show in shallow water.
A Tompot blenny (Parablennius gattorugine), this one was hiding in his hole and almost attached to my camera by a piece of string.....as the camera got close he retreated into his hole!
I am somewhat adept at finding taps which are then cleaned and nailed onto the shed-wall! This one was on Yewglen and all that was showing was a small bit of the handle and outlet, it came out of the iron crud really easily.
The softer compound rivets are also rotting away on this wreck
Bits of MV Yewglen wedged and jammed into the Little Rock
A pretty little light, one of the guys thought 'deck light' but with a solid back and close to another two broken lights I would think a bulkhead light of some description, date late victorian to pre WWI.
This is a shot from the back showing that there is no path for the sunlight above the deck, it is blanked off
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