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Knacker Hole at Beadnell
A good small stuff dive, with a very short walk and easy access. It can be a bit busy during warm weather with open water training!!!
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I think part of a mast, I did think prop shaft from a smaller vessel but winter storms revealed that at least one of the ends is sealed.
A hatch with the actual cut-out still 'envisionable', is there such a word? There should be!
Having extracted this common lobster (Hommarus gammarus) I found it was berried, grrrrh!
Looking along the foredeck of the wreck, it's been heavily salvaged so not a lot of 'Ahhhhhh its a' type photos!
I really delayed polishing and you will see that at this stage the trunions were still to be machined from the blank.......
Scrapyard, if you look carefully you will be able to see Albert Steptoe, he's a dirty old man!
A shot of the sea-bed in about twenty five meters off the Harcarrs, its all flat rock, small gravel beds and short drop offs.
Just a scenic showing the vis on this particular dive, it was around the 10m mark, probably a tad better.
Arty-farty shot of a pinnacle
All turned and time to polish!
A pair of Wolf-fish (Anarhichas lupus) in a hole, these were a couple of large fish with 'fist' size heads, when looking for these fish look for secure holes, I tend to concentrate in cracks and fissures in the bed-rock, rather than loose rocks and boulders.
A small shellfish, probably some type of oyster. I took this photograph as I have never seen one before and thought it may be a 'foreign invader', it isn't!
Everywhere that you look the bottom isn't bedrock, it is formed from sections of ship.
The only place that I have ssen something similar is a 'fancy support' to a compass binnacle, this however would not have been fitted to MV Yewglen and is obviously an earlier vintage
Paddle boarders, didn't know that during this dive a paddle would be found
This section is the only bit commonly found south of the boilers, you might find some bits of bow but its a swim and they may be covered in sand
These weeds 'reached for the surface' and with the small fish swimming about they were like trees and the fish like birds, this time with the pier steps shown going into the water.
A Common Whelk (Nucella lapillus) I had to double take as this one was eating what seemed to be an edible crab and on checking yup they do eat crabs, amazing!
A shot showing four rods coming out from the sand clos to the propellor tip, so probably part of the engine mounting arrangement.
Where the sandstone bedrock 'pokes through' the boulders it is worn into some fantastical shapes
Being a bit of a pedant I decided that I would need to fix a point where the fishing line could be secured.....
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