Duo-Divers

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

Spot the seal!

You will certainly get a few chances for 'davit' shots on the wreck!

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!

The barrels just 'go off' into the gloom, wow!

Harbour Crab (Liocarcinus depurator), quite a common critter but usually very skitterish and keen to be out of the way.

Getting out can be a bit of a chew over large rocks but not too problematic if you just take your time

A general shot of the rock formations complete with kelp and bits.....

Bear with me....its the port side hawse pipe and the two 'eyes' are where the flukles of the anchor located to sop them 'bashing about' when the ship was operating at high speed or inclement seas.

This is a nice shot of one of the compressed air cylinders, you can see that a large section has been eroded away by the effect of sea and sand, potentially aided if someone blasted off the bronze fittings.

A view into the propellor shaft, simply taking a bearing along the shaft and follow over the sand and you will reach the other part of the wreck

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 divers favourite a Tompot Blenny (Parablennius gattorugine) it's probably the 'mad hair-cut' that makes them popular, this one was on the steps looking for scraps

The lower mounting position where the pin would fit

A King....or Common....or Great Scallop (Pecten maximus) this one was just about to 'jet off'.

Lost fishing line, sometimes obvious, other times not so. Always take some cutting gear and never try to snap braid using fingers or hands!

All that was missing was 'Steptoe and son', a scrapyard!

Once inside there is plenty of room to move about without many intact bulkheads you'd struggle to loose your buddy too. The floor was wood with no metal plate behind so it's rotting away rapidly.

The Montagus blenny (Coryphoblennius galerita), not the best of shots but this critter was on a pile of sand infront of his lair.

The engine block, the shot-line is tied to this

Another larger boiler, showing the fire hole, head from the donkey boiler back along a 10m deep zone and you'll find it.

There is coal everywhere on this and the other sites

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

Over the boulders and further along the bottom becomes 'paved', again, plenty of filter feeding life but not much opportunity for crabs and lobbies.

Head 'straight down' from the propellor and you will land on two large boilers, just follow the debris!