Duo-Divers

An arty fary half and half shot

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

Loads of these blue fiends on this site, a Common Lobster (Homarus gammarus) this one coming forward to look at what is looking at him.

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

A Long Legged Spider Crab (Macropodia rostrata) there are loads on all or most sites, this is the most common 'camouflage'.

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

It was the perfect storm of North Easteries plus extreme cold, you don't tend to get much snow at Beadnell but we were cut off, even the road to Seahouses was shut with five feet deep drifts of snow

The John L coming in for a pick up on quite a blustery day

Another of my regular buddies, Donzo coming out at the bottom, to be greeted with a flash!

More girders and struts, this is a good distance from the main lumps of superstructure but the shallow water and big seas does increasingly move stuff about

I think that this is part of the range-finder arrangement which was located on the conning tower, basically the wider apart the two sighting positions , the wider the angle and the more accurate the range calculations!

If the vis is a bit suspect dont do a 'hard' duck dive at the steps as banging your noggin on hard and sharp steel isn't conducive to a pleasant dip!

This is the other side of the same assembly.......

The rock formations are formed so that the 'vertical cliff' faces the shore and the slopes lead away to the east. You can see that the faces are quite fractured and home to loads of different life, some edible some not so

Still at the stern section, exterior plate with holes, any brass has long, long gone

Some sort of winching arrangement, this is a large section of wreckage within a short distance of the boilers

A Common Starfish (Asterias rubens) this one was digging deep for I guess a cockle or similar that he had 'sensed'.

The lower mounting position where the pin would fit

The cobbled bottom stops 'abruptly' and there is a section of coarse sand, don't worry it is maybe fifteen meters before you get back to rock so it's highly unlikely that you will be swimming in circles forever!

A Devonshire cup-coral (Caryophyllia smithii), there are loads of these multi-coloured critters on the wreckage

A Plaice (Pleuronectes platessa), relatively common around Beadnell due to the mixed ground.