Duo-Divers

King scallop (Pecten maximus) not a huge amount of 'live ones' here but loads of shells from where they are gutted by divers. Those present seem to have been 'thrown back' by divers who realise that they were undersized!

Horse Mussel (Modiolus modiolus) these large mussels tend to be solitary rather than in huge beds and taste ghastly so don't bother chopping them out from their homes embedded in the sea-bed.

Inside the plane

Wrecky bits against the reef- face

A pair of brittle stars (Ophiura ophiura) these critters are actually quite rapid and much faster than other types of starfish

This is a section of I guess superstructure where the plate has long since been bashed/rusted away. There are plenty of bits like this around the site but this one, at the inshore end of the main gully, is oddball as it 'sits up' meaning that any photos can be a bit more interesting as you can get underneath as per this shot.

Under the thick layer of dulse is a load of angled metal work, I am guessing part of the vessel where there is a step up/down.

A shot showing part of a shoal of Saithe (Pollachius virens) hovering above the kelp line wiating for the tide to turn!

I also had the cascabel end engraved, a nice touch I thought.

The mast going off into 'the gloom'

And a mechanical 'thing'

And here is the business end, not really good as you cant get a sense of scale

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

A Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris), there are loads about this year (2016) you just have to get your eye in to spot 'em.

A grey seal pup (Halichoerus grypus) swam past and had a good look at me before........

Look carefully and you can see weights poking out!

This is what remains of the bows, when the plates fell apart the bow fell forward as the supporting structure had been removed

Not quite New Year but into a clarty site for a lobster

Settling down on a patch of gravel and waiting until I bimbled over.......

I - And after lots of investigation into various oils I opted for high quality Danish Oil rather than Tung oil or similar

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

The bows of SS Breda, or at least the very front of the cut down bow section after she was wire cut to 28ft.

H - The finish had to be an oil as there is no way that a wood of this age would take a varnish