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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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A Ling (Molua molua), this one zipped past me at speed and went into it's hidey hole, it was quite a size, maybe three feet long.
You will certainly get a few chances for 'davit' shots on the wreck!
Not really sure what this chain drive will have been uised for, it's in the area of the engine room....possibly part of the ships telegraph arranegment?
A very large, well the largest that I have ever seen Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris), eyes down!
It's been part polished now but this nameplate for the Boatswains Cabin was taken from SS Abessinia on Knifestone at the Farne Islands. There must be hundreds or perhaps thousands of dives per year and you can still, on occasion, pick up something 'nice'.
I know the location of a porthole which is currently covered, when the next storm removes the cover I will be there with my tools and implements!
Looking out of the 'sea-side' of the hull, scenic but the shoals of fish are arriving before the tide turns
A Marbled swimming crab (Liocarcinus marmoreus), very similar to the velvet swimming crab, maybe a touch lighter in colour
A King....or Common....or Great Scallop (Pecten maximus) this one was just about to 'jet off'.
The engine block, the shot-line is tied to this
View one 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.
The seal eventually lay on the bottom and wanted to have its photo taken.....
This is the top of the sternpost
Back quarter shot all done and pre-mounting.
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 Painted Goby (Pomatoschistus pictus) a very common small fish that follows divers around hoping that some small creatures, its next meal, are dislodged.
Drop over to the 'hull side' of the vessel and it's still pretty messed around.
Another footballer work of some description.......
You do need sharp eyes as frequently all that is visible, poking through tiny pockets of sand, are the stainless steel grip leads.
A rather bedraggled Sqaut Lobster (Galathea squamifera) sitting within a Dead-mans finger (Alcyonium digitatum) this one had no claws hence it had lost it's hole and was hiding away in a filter feeder, judging by it's general appearance and barnacle covered carapice I would think, not long of this world.
As you look along the bottom of the gullies you will see that the hull-plate has moulded onto the bedrock whilst the vertical sections are rapidly being eaten away by the sea
A common hermit crab (Pagurus bernhardus), this one was a tad larger and seemed to have eggs around the rim of the shell.
Another 'arty-farty' showing an empty lobster pot standing on end....
The Staple Sound side of the site is a wall smothered in Dead mans Fingers (Alcyonium digitatum) and is a great scenic dive!
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!
I really struggled whilst looking for handles that 'spin or rotate' whilst you turn the reel, eventually I settled on machining a bit of brass with knurling for grip and mounting on a countersunk screw that wasn't tightened all of the way in
Same guy and those orange dry-gloves didn't half reflect the light!