Duo-Divers

A Long Clawed Squat Lobster (Munida rugosa) this one had set up shop in an old broken bottle which I guess forms a good and secure home.

Believe it or not a Gravel Sea Cucumber (Neopentadadactyla mixta) under the tentacles there is a creature living in a hole!

The inside or West side of the boiler with fire hole etc on show

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?

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.

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

Looking towards Dell Point, not sure that you can clearly see the tosheroon in the watery winter sunshine

View two of a bilge sieve, these were fitted to the open ends of bilge pipes to make sure that no large crud which may block the pump could be drawn into the system.

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

Plastic waste, again, arrrrgh!

Usually the top of this boiler is the first thing you see when descending, you can make out the access hole for fuel and the steam pipes

Three Sea Hares (Lepus marinus) in a bit of a stack. Their colour is defined by diet so the top one has been eating almost exclusively dulse whilst the other two have been eating some green stuff, most likely Sea Luttuce.

A Shanny (Lipophrys phalis) this one was living in an old hole and would 'hang out' when it realised that you didn't want to eat it!

Some of the spars n bars poke up some way towards the surface

Moving down the slope it starts 'easing off' and the boulders become a bit smaller....

A lebgth of conveyor belt, maybe used originally for lifting crushed stone from the quarry?

A 'random wreckage' shot, you can see the rope and shattered pot, so go steady on these dives as there are trapping hazards about.

The seal eventually lay on the bottom and wanted to have its photo taken.....again....

A Short Spined Sea-Scorpion (Myoxocephalus scorpius), a nice 'easy' fish to get nice photographs of, as you can probably tell if you go through all of the albums.