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Gyllyngvase Beach and Ponus
I don't do a huge amount of diving in the'deep south' but lots of people do, this dive guide has a link to Atlantic Scuba, if you have any questions give Mark a shout and I am sure he will provide suitable enlightenment!
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Hanging doing deco
Just off the starboard side near the bows on SS Thesis, you can see that the existing supporting structure is rapidly giving up the ghost.
A common starfish (Asterias rubens) attempting to open a small scallop, one of my mates Hud, is so bad at scalloping he looks for starfish feeding and then steals the scallop!
A Painted Goby (Pomatoschistus pictus) a very common small fish that follows divers around hoping that some small creatures, its next meal, are dislodged.
These Spiny Starfish (Marthasterias glacialis) are very common and again in common with most starfish a good subject for macro work as you can get close and take very good textural and close up shots.
A grey seal pup (Halichoerus grypus) swam past and had a good look at me before........
A pair of Wolf-fish (Anarhichas lupus) in a hole, these were a couple of large fish with 'fist' size heads, when looking for these fish look for secure holes, I tend to concentrate in cracks and fissures in the bed-rock, rather than loose rocks and boulders.
Not quite New Year but into a clarty site for a lobster
As you approach the debris field you will find little lengths of lead coated wiring sticking out of the sand or protruding from under stones.
If you drop down you will find cracks, crevices, nooks and crannies but the darkness does restrict life a little
First containment done.......
I am pretty damn sure that this section is the very bows of the Yewglen, I am looking for the ideal Kate Twinset to recreate that Titanic scene!
The common edible crab (cancer pagarus) you tend to get only smaller ones in shallow water but there are still plenty of them about.
A view of the business end of an Angler-fish (Lophius piscatorious) there are loads about the sites and once you've spotted one they become easier to see.
In some areas the broken bottom comprises of large stones covered in life, strange that there is a centre section almost devoid of filters feeders.....
Everywhere that you look the bottom isn't bedrock, it is formed from sections of ship, although it is all well broken up and smothered in filter feeders which acts as a reminder that the dive is particularly tidal.
I think part of a mast, I did think prop shaft from a smaller vessel but winter storms revealed that at least one of the ends is sealed.
A shot of the sea-bed in about twenty five meters off the Harcarrs, its all flat rock, small gravel beds and short drop offs.
A typical view of the sten section, all plates and beams
A straight view down to the haven between the two carrs, snow and ice on slaty sand, it was cold!
A scenic of one of the masts, snapped where it goes over some other wreckage, going away from the body of the wreck
I also had the cascabel end engraved, a nice touch I thought.
In common with most southern sites there were loads of Snale locks anemones (Anemonia viridis) on surfaces where there was sun and water movement.
Concreted crap like a plum pudding of rust, brass bits and stones. Every year more is broken up as the sea gets 'underneath' and frees the brass. That's why those early dives are important, lots of bits freed and available to be picked up.
The cock-pit, you can see that all removeable bits have gone, that's the good old UK diver for you!
The head of a Greater Pipefish (Syngnathus acus)
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