Duo-Divers

A Ling (Molua molua), this one zipped past me at speed and went into it's hidey hole, it was quite a size, maybe three feet long.

A female Common Dragonet (Callionymus lyra), this one didn't want to move and simply shuffled deeper into the sand as the lens got closer.

The lower mounting position where the pin would fit

More non-ferrous from Mistley and this time some golf balls for good measure!

The engine block, the shot-line is tied to this

More lead scupper from Mistley, this stuff was from about mid-ship on the keel line so I am guessing that they were pretty much feeding straight into the pump, which has probably long gone.

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!

On the southern side the edge is under-cut close to the deep gutter, with various critters living in the space under the rock

I think this is a nav-light arrangement on a small 'sold' mast assembly

A view inside a deck gun, this one has a more intact breech assembly and you can make out the various gubbins

Usually the top of this boiler is the first thing you see when descending, you can make out the access hole for fuel and the steam pipes

Typical farne site, a 'wall' down to a slowly sloping rock and boulder bottom.

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

Not a good shot but one of the rebreather chaps next to the rudders, these stand about 6m proud of the bottom of the vessel and are intact despite the explosive forces used to remove the phosphor bronze propellors which were located very, very close.

A general topographical shot, there are several large stone pinnacles on the site, the largest rising maybe 4m from the seabed and with a circumference of 50m. They do degrade over time as they are formed from a softish rock and do receive a battering every year from Southerly and Easterly storms. They are however perfect lobster ground with their huge number of cracks and crevices!

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