Duo-Divers

Girders and struts from I am assuming the top structure of MV Yewglen

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

Looking up through a hole in the bottom of the boat, the surface is about 14m away, boy it's clear!

Some sort of dead-eye or similar, this just sits in the middle of one of the gullies

I was trying to show how much sand had been scoured out of the iste, you can see here that there is a section of shale wall that's maybe fifty centimeters high where there was no weed hence it was covered prior to the last storms.

Another partially cleaned brass breech block.......

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

Under the rocks here is a large steel flange, possibly part of the conning tower arrangement as it is too small to form part of the hull structure.

Another view close to the upright showing some of the hull flattened on the bottom.

Nudibranch alert! This particular species appears to have electric blue tips when viewed in the water.

The Staple Sound side of the site is a wall smothered in Dead mans Fingers (Alcyonium digitatum) and is a great scenic dive!

Part of the stern section of SS Mistley, there is a small area where the girder construction is still present and maybe 1m above the seabed.

Lobsters (Hommarus gammarus) in a pot, I think that these will be put back as they are 'borderline'.

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

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

Bollards! I don't know if these are solid, I suspect not but they are one of the parts of the wreck that can be positively identified.

A male Cuckoo Wrasse (Labrus bimaculatus), this one was very interested in what I was about.

Leopard Spotted Goby (thorogobius ephippiatus) the knack is getting them to stay still, lots of phtographs come out as a puff of silt and a tail.  

Common edible and tasty lobster (homarus gammarus) the area is home to a multitude of them!

When you head 'off-piste' away from the main body there are still large lumps of wreckage

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

To hold the cascabels I found some model bearing holders in cast brass that worked loverly!