Duo-Divers

A view of conditions with the sea smashing onto the end of Seahouses golf course, this storm really changed wreck topography on North facing sites with Yewglen hugely bashed about and changed

A bent anchor from the South Side of Beadnell Point

The boilers again

A bit of deco after the bounce dive, yes the other guy did make it!

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 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.

More shots of the debris field, later in the year so a 'better' water colour!

After the propellor the next 'lump' is a set of bollards

After throwing yourself in you can look back up the rock-face......nice

These weeds 'reached for the surface' and with the small fish swimming about they were like trees and the fish like birds, pretty?

Kelp (Family laminariales) does tend to be quite a long lived plant with the stem above say the first twenty centimeters quite a safe place for a plant to grow without the risk of sea-urchins 'browsing' you away. In this case dulse and other sea-weed encases the stem, making an eco-system up in the water column!

A Velvet Swimming Crab (Necora puber) hiding under a Dead Mans Finger (Alcyonium digitatum), there can be quite a few creepy crawlies hidden away you simply have to take the time and look!

A - It started with a bit of wood on the beach to the North of Bamburgh

The upper mounting position where the pin would fit

A view through the boilers from 'nearly inside'

Arty-farty shot of the wall with kelp waving in the current, I think that the cotrrect terminology is atmospheric?

Part of a shoal of lesser sandeels (Ammodytes tobianus) there are huge bait balls of this foodstuff through the summer, some of which are attacked from above and below. These fish were quite happy to stay relatively close, they obviously didn't see a diver as a threat.

A grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) the reason loads of divers visit the islands

In the shale bedrock you will also occasionally see some very nice fossils, in this case some prehistoric bi-valve

Typical geology, the surfaces are covered in Dead mans fingers (Alcyonium digitatum), the bottom being small vertical faces, rocks and large boulders....all very scenic and pretty in good vis!

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.  

Everywhere that you look the bottom isn't bedrock, it is formed from sections of ship.

An immature cod (Gadus) this particularly colourful and lonesome specimen is obviously going to be a 'kelp cod' that's to say one of the sub-species(?) which stay inshore all year around and turn red as they age.

That 'light-bulb' moment, this is the slightly bent bit that made me think 'keel' it doesn't move and has that 'look' about it. I will need to clout and see if it is solid or a 'U' section with wood inside.