Duo-Divers

A Plaice (Pleoronectidae platessa)

The carriage was to be made from 'period oak'

A pair of breeding Edible Crabs (Cancer pagurus)  The male will carry around the female until she sheds to make sure that it's his sperm that is used to fertilise the eggs.

The picked bones of a dead creature, probably a fish, most probably a wrasse caught and returned by anglers.

A well known 'lair' and a well known Blue Fiend or Lobster (Homarus gammarus) I've had him out a couple of times and I guess he weighs in at about five pounds!

Maybe not totally original but having bullied the crab I pushed my torch inside the barrel of this gun..............

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!

The divers favourite a Tompot Blenny (Parablennius gattorugine) this one was busy 'ripping' bits of food from a childs drop-net that you can just see in the background, so more than happy to pose for pictures as there was food about!

At the stern there is evidence of anchor chains

An initial 'zoom past' by a Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus) he returned later in the dive!

Some details on the boat

If you drop down you will find cracks, crevices, nooks and crannies but the darkness does restrict life a little

Holes in the back of the fin, makes things much easy to put on and take off

You can get all manner of brass raging agents, I went with a vinegar fume bath and I am more than happy with the results.

A scenic of one of the masts, snapped where it goes over some other wreckage, going away from the body of the wreck

Part of a shoal of lesser sandeels (Ammodytes tobianus) there are huge bait balls of this foodstuff through the summer, some of which are attacked from above and below. These fish were quite happy to stay relatively close, they obviously didn't see a diver as a threat.

A Lions Mane Jellyfish (Cyanea capillata), when they are about deco stops are always interesting!

This valve had been wedged under the boiler at Beadnell Point for a long time.....

The northern, vertical rock face is smothered in hydroids, sea-squirts and boring corals but no dead mans fingers, it's still nice and pretty in bright conditions

The closest that I can find is a lightly coloured Green Crab (Carcinus maenas) but it doesn't sit right as this one was almost orange in colour. I shall keep looking and update if I can get more details.

Port side again