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Castle Beach and u boat Shore Dive
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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A Plaice (Pleuronectes platessa), relatively common around Beadnell due to the mixed ground.
A very scenic dip with dead mans fingers (Alcyonium digitatum) covering hard rock with boulders in some of the larger gullies.
Dropping into the main gully one of the first things that you notice is the rust stained sand.
Everywhere that you look the bottom isn't bedrock, it is formed from sections of ship, in some cases folded over and over forming very useful lobbie lairs
The rocks, which are a soft 'holey' shale are coated in a pretty pink coralline growth
And the third anchor, I am not sure why she would carry three anchors, there would be one on each side of the bows, I am guessing that there was a spare somewhere on the foredeck.
When you get to the sandstone bedrock there are quite a few areas where there are 'small' gullies with undercut sections, surprisingly there are very few lobsters in the cut-backs but a few under boulders!
A keel pin from the site on the South Side of Beadnell Point
Another 'arty farty' this time shallow water and seaweed being bent ever so slightly by the incoming tide.
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
Being a bit of a pedant I decided that I would need to fix a point where the fishing line could be secured.....
Spot the seal!
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!
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