Duo-Divers

A common or garden Plaice (Pleuronectes platessa), get to the gritty sand and you will se a few of these tasty fish, if you are so inclined you could bag for your tea.

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.

Move away from the face and you reach a jumble of boulders, some with dead-mans fingers

The first anchor, of an early Danforth pattern!

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!

An oyster clamped down on the pier. there were quite a few on the pier but I didn't spot any on rocks under the water.......

A 'fresh' Greenland Shark (Somniosus microcephalus) that was washed up at Embleton. Great was my joy at being able to tell the guys at St Andrews University that this specimen had washed up and it was sweetened by adding that we had already toild Newcastle University of the stranding

Football sea squirts (Diazona violacea), again lots of these very simple animals inhabit the outside of the hull of SS Rondo.

A male Cuckoo Wrasse (Labrus bimaculatus), this one was very interested in what I was about, approaching the camera dome for a good look-see.

Large lengths of plastic service pipe are ideal for training in an overhead environment

A tiny Long Spined Sea Scorpion (Taurulus bubalis) this one was less than 10mm long!

The results of a successful 'bilge hunt' on Mistley, teh exposed surface of the pipe is nice and grey, the section concreted in to the rock and rust tends to be black and horrible.

All of the time keep an eye open for Lions Mane Jellyfish (Cyanea capillata) they sting and the tentacles are a few meters long, always approach from up-tide! 

When looking for 'bits' look for colours that leap out at you, this piece of copper just doesn't blend in with the sea-bed.

This flounder (Platicthys flesus) stayed put until the flash fired and then it was off, at speed!

More bits in the jumble of machinery

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

More s'cenic stuff 'showing the hull rent where the engine room has been blasted open.