Duo-Divers

Until we were lens to nose, so to speak!

'Who is that hiding under there?'

One of the observation slits on the conning tower, like 'Knights visors' these were designed to minimise the chance of shrapnel and metal splinters being blasted into the tower

Watch out for those sharp edges, at best a slashed dry-suit and at worst a rusty cut giving you a reddish brown tattoo and trip to A&E to be stitched up

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!

If the skipper 'drops a goolie' and puts you in 'off' the guns then finding them in this kelp can be challenging to say the least

If you look down into the heavily salvaged engine space you can see the prop shaft, the hole down is about 20m to the inverted deck, quite a drop.....

A bit of an 'arty-farty' looking up to Balck Rock, on this one the kelp which grows on the rock face is swirling in the tide

The vis was crap which meant that I was unable to get good shots of wreckage, nut the dirt in the water meant a huge amount of filter feeders were 'out' such as Dead Mans Fingers (Alcyonium digitatum), the shots were a bit atmospheric but came out okay I think....

The geology of the site is all crevices and fissures so it's very pretty even without the wreckage

More identifiable bits, the steam powered windlass that was mounted near the bow, the main steel mast in lying to the left (North) up and onto a reef and there are bits of bollard and the like adjacent.

Divers on the stern section, this gives some sense of scale

A white german fire brick, the engine area has been heavily salvaged so there are a few bricks dotted about

Not too happy at all!

When you get to the sandstone bedrock there are quite a few areas where there are 'small' gullies with undercut sections, surprisingly there are very few lobsters in the cut-backs but a few under boulders!

Debris all around and most unidentifiable, in this case it's looks a bit like the trunion end of a cannon, which obviously it can't be. On reflection the end of a mast?

Feedin' the wrasse!!

In this case Ballan Wrasse (Labrus bergylta) on a smashed edible sea urchin (Echinus esculentus), don't try this at home kids.

Some of the boulders have quite a cap of filter feeders and look pretty!