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Port Gaverne
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 scenic of the bow, due to the previous salvage operation it has 'snapped' and fallen away from centre to left of the photograph
A 'scaling shot' of the largest diameter section, you can only see the top of this pieces poking out from the sand
The common edible crab (cancer pagarus) you tend to get only smaller ones in shallow water but there are still plenty of them about.
Winter 2019 and a young pup that went the wrong direction and hauled out at Beadnell Haven, not an issue in these enlightened times but twenty years ago it would have been one foot of a fluffy pair of slippers!
This one has only recently been 'ditched' by it's mother so is learning to fend for itself and looking around for some space and food!
If you look down into the heavily salvaged engine space you can see the prop shaft, the hole down is about 20m to the inverted deck, quite a drop.....
The bedrock here is rather undulating and carpetted in Dead Mans Finger (Alcyonium digitatum), it's pretty obvious that it is 'very' tidal!
A very scenic dip with dead mans fingers (Alcyonium digitatum) covering hard rock with boulders in some of the larger gullies.
A Shanny (Lipophrys phalis) this one was living in an old hole on the pier that dried out at low water so maybe there was enough water in the hole to keep it going, alternatively it 'knew' to get out, hide and then zip back on the flood?
Feedin' the wrasse!!
In this case Ballan Wrasse (Labrus bergylta) on a smashed edible sea urchin (Echinus esculentus), don't try this at home kids.
You will certainly get a few chances for 'davit' shots on the wreck!
Bloody plastic waste, arrrrrrgh!
Rust, rust, rust......after every storm the coating of plants and cruid is 'bashed' away leaving bare metal which rusts and in colonised by the sea only for the process to repeat, eventually leaving noting behind but the larger structural pieces of steel.
Part of the engine assembly, in this case a con rod on the main shaft, not easy to get a sense of scale but it's B----I----G.
A Hermit Crab (Pagurus bernhardus) had set up shop in an old whelk shell, te problem was that it was far to small and spent most of the time looking out of a hole half way down the shell!
'Who is that hiding under there?'
This is a section of I guess superstructure where the plate has long since been bashed/rusted away. There are plenty of bits like this around the site but this one, at the inshore end of the main gully, is oddball as it 'sits up' meaning that any photos can be a bit more interesting as you can get underneath as per this shot.
A Spiny Spider Crab (Maja squinado) common enough down south on on the West Coast of Scotland but not so many around the Farne Islands.
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