Duo-Divers

The common nudibranch Polycera quadrileata, if there are 'lots' of protrubences at the head then chances are it's a faeroenis!

A view into the propellor shaft, simply taking a bearing along the shaft and follow over the sand and you will reach the other part of the wreck

Some details on the boat

In the centre of the top deck as you swim back towards the funnels there are only the occasional uprights left, not sure how long before everything starts buckling.

A general topographical shot, there are several large stone pinnacles on the site, the largest rising maybe 4m from the seabed and with a circumference of 50m. They do degrade over time as they are formed from a softish rock and do receive a battering every year from Southerly and Easterly storms.

A scenic of the bow, due to the previous salvage operation it has 'snapped' and fallen away from centre to left of the photograph

By late summer the once bare stems of the kelp are little microcosms of weeds and small animals, the winter storms smashes everything up but twelve months later it's all back.

Bits of MV Yewglen wedged and jammed into the Little Rock

The rocks, which are a soft 'holey' shale are coated in a pretty pink coralline growth

The gnomes garden......there are a few broken ones around too!

A plate from Yewglen and its got my name on it! That said I think that it is probably a plate for a MacGregor patent hatch cover.

Not sure what these sections are or did but there are several on the site so unless they form an integral part of a gun carriage we can say that the pipes are not cannon

Looking along the wreckage of the Mistley, you can see the ribs or joints on the bottom.

As you approach the debris field you will find little lengths of lead coated wiring sticking out of the sand or protruding from under stones.

Flat bits of plate, be that deck or hull are all over the site, I think they are deck as they are flat with very little in the way of thick metal ribs, but I do get things wrong.

Another small nudibranch, not sure what type it is and for all the wporld it appears to be an immature Sea Lemon although it is far to late in the season.....further investigation required!

This is the rounded section of stern and you can see how it's all falling apart as age causes a general degradation of the thinner steel used on these vessels, I don't think that there will be much left of the smaller vessels on the bicentennary of WW1