Duo-Divers

A common hermit crab (Pagurus bernhardus), this one was a tad larger and seemed to have eggs around the rim of the shell.

More girders and struts, this is a good distance from the main lumps of superstructure but the shallow water and big seas does increasingly move stuff about

A more conventionally coloured Bloody Henry (Henerica oculata)

I was half expecting to see waves and spray 'freeze' in mid-air.....

I really delayed polishing and you will see that at this stage the trunions were still to be machined from the blank.......

A shot down the length of the 'horizontal boiler'.

Dropping down, with a stone floor and walls the vis is uaually very good

Compare and contrast a real cannon with the claimed cannon on the Hopper!

Cascabels, trunions and the taper of the barrel!

Part of the wreck is covered in a large net, which hanging over the window looks quite nice.

A shoal of immature Bib (Trisopterus luscus) this shoal was always around a particular large rock on the site, not sure why, guess that there is a subtle current split or join?

A view through the boilers from 'nearly inside'

Arty-farty shot of a Velvet Swimming Crab (Necora puber)

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.

Inside the tunnel, you can see the permanent line at the ceiling and the relatively good vis, again there is no silt to stir up

Ahhhh, bollards! Well at least this is an identifiable lump in the middle of the wreckage

How on earth this lobster (Hommarus gammarus) managed to get both claws through a single hole in the pot I have no idea!

Again the wreckage from the port side, there are more planks than you would think as I am sure that the wreck would have been heavily salvaged by locals!

A high altitude gun, you would have needed some 'minerals' to be operating this even with the aeroplanes and airships of the period!

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