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Low Newton and Embleton Reef
An area which isn't dived as much now as it was back in the 80's but still a nice area to dive with a little 'rust' for those among us who must dive on wreckage. The main problem with the sites are long walks and it's a long way to take a RIB if you are diving the Farne Islands and have launched at either Beadnell or Seahouses.
Latest Photographs


Dead Mans Fingers (Alcyonium digitatum)
You can now look along the prop-shaft tunnel
Kelp (Family laminariales) does tend to be quite a long lived plant with the stem above say the first twenty centimeters quite a safe place for a plant to grow without the risk of sea-urchins 'browsing' you away. In this case dulse and other sea-weed encases the stem, making an eco-system up in the water column!
Apparently these are not immature or juvenile, rather they are commonly known as 'possum shrimps', try Mysida on a search engine. Popular as live fish food in the aquarium trade apparently.....well now we all know!
Trunions marked up and second containment done.....
This is about mid-ships by my reckoning, could be the top of a capstan or similar, again this hasn't been visible for a number of years.
The trunions would be the widest section, so I marked them off and started to turn the piece.....
The barrels just 'go off' into the gloom, wow!
In common with most southern sites there were loads of Snale locks anemones (Anemonia viridis) on surfaces where there was sun and water movement.
The seal eventually lay on the bottom and wanted to have its photo taken.....again.....and again!
The concreted in anchor, this is located on its own 'up' the gully on the seaward side of the Hopper rock
And a mechanical 'thing'
A lions Mane Jellyfish (Cyanea capillata) moving past with the prevailing tide, the long stingers on these beggars can be 3m long and be left on shot ropes sooooo, dont approach them without caustion and wear gloves!
Debris all around and most unidentifiable, in this case it's a 'wheel type thingie'......
Along part of the site there is a definite step of maybe a meter, a very good spot for picking up lost weights but note the general lack of life here in 10m of water!
A Plaice (Pleuronectes platessa), relatively common around Beadnell due to the mixed ground.
A scenic of one of the masts, snapped where it goes over some other wreckage, going away from the body of the wreck
Another arty shot of the stringy like Bootlace Weed (Chorda filum) that is found in lower inter-tidal water. Apparently quite tasty too!
Dropping to the bottom about eighty meters from the cliff face and you are faced with a bottom comprising of boulders with coarse sand between them, the boulders vary in size from the size of cars to maybe a meter cubed.
This area was exposed during the storms of 2018/2019 when a foot or so of sand was scoured out, so there is a mish-mash of bits all rusted onto the bottom of the gully.
The concreted in anchor, this is located on its own 'up' the gully on the seaward side of the Hopper rock