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Lady Hole
The last shore dive at Beadnell and a nice site with a couple of dive options, one for newbies and one for the slightly more adventurous!
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Another boiler, this one has a large lump of machinery to the south and is pretty much intact
The rocks, which are a soft 'holey' shale are coated in a pretty pink coralline growth
A Lions Mane Jellyfish (Cyanea capillata), when they are about deco stops are always interesting!
A typical north east wreck dive, plates, boilers n bits. In this case probably Jan Van Ryswyck although a few vessels have foundered so the bits are somehwhat mixed!
Work over the site and you will see odd bits of iron jammed into cracks and fissures on the sea-bed
I was half expecting to see waves and spray 'freeze' in mid-air.....
To have a swim and try to........
Some of the boulders have quite a cap of filter feeders and look pretty!
The vis tends to be good as the bottom and walls are stone rather than silty mud like some other UK inland dive shites, ooops sites!
A bit of a swim through, if that's your thing, I'm not sure if this is part of the funnel or a 'rippled' section of hull/deck. I suspect it is part of the funnel as there are no signs of beams.
The geology of the site comprises of small steep sided gullies, fissured into the reef
'Cut me and do I not bleed'.... Alternatively 'Clout me and do I not rust'
On one particular stone there were loads of Candy striped flatworms (Prostheceraeus vittatus), not sure why as adjacent areas were devoid.
More bits in the jumble of machinery
A bit of deco after the bounce dive, yes the other guy did make it!
More shots of the debris field, later in the year so a 'better' water colour!
A bent anchor from the South Side of Beadnell Point
The horizontal boiler, again quite good condition, I assume that its relative depth saves it from most of the pounding damage
A valve identification plate, interestingly this one has raised lettering rather than details stamped in. This means that it must have been cast, a rather strange and expensive way to make simple ID plates!
Move away from the face and you reach a jumble of boulders, some with dead-mans fingers
Knacker Hole contains loads of blue fineds, that is to say Common Lobsters (Homarus gammarus) it really is a case of picking a hole and waiting until the monster emerges!
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