Duo-Divers

A - It started with a bit of wood on the beach to the North of Bamburgh

A gun sticking out from the side of the wreck, along with a few 'blurry' coalfish

Fishing lines criss-crossing the bottom, not ideal for divers of aquatic animals......

A Sea lemon (Dorididae) on dull purple sea-weed, these nudibranchs are always easy to spot and this shows why!

By late summer you can't see the individual pipes on the boiler and it appears as a big dulse covered 'lump' but there is a boiler under there, honest!

The John L coming in for a pick up on quite a blustery day

A square 'chute' standing upright, pre-2019 this was flat so the storms have obvioulsy shifted about. I could have done with being lower to take a 'thru-photo' and a subject at the other side would have been good.

I decided to hold the wheels in place with brazed end caps

Not really sure what this chain drive will have been uised for, it's in the area of the engine room....possibly part of the ships telegraph arranegment?

The size of the scrap-field gives some indication of how large the vessel was but every year more of it is bashed, pulverised and washed away in winter storms....

The second anchor, again of a Danfort design.

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!

The Sea hare (Aplysia punctata) a common enough critter around the uk coastline but we tend to get explosions of them every couple of years.

And here is the business end, not really good as you cant get a sense of scale

The Staple Sound side of the site is a wall smothered in Dead mans Fingers (Alcyonium digitatum) and is a great scenic dive!

Dropping into the main gully one of the first things that you notice is the rust stained sand and then larger pieces of wreckage start to appear.

In the centre of the top deck as you swim back towards the funnels there are only the occasional uprights left, not sure how long before everything starts buckling.

A Common Hermit Crab (Pagurus bernhardus) this one is in a winkle shell and was quite happy trying to stare me down, cheeky little blighter!

If you look carefully at shots of Yewglen you will see that she had a pair of rubbing strakes welded onto the side of he hull, another positive bit of identification!

Some times all that you see are grip wires sticking out of the sand.......

Port side again

Start heading west and you get to hard ground, in this case a paving of doleritc limestone cracked into almost cobble shapes.....no it isn't a Roman Road!

Believe it or not a Gravel Sea Cucumber (Neopentadadactyla mixta) under the tentacles there is a creature living in a hole!

Typical geology, the surfaces are covered in Dead mans fingers (Alcyonium digitatum), the bottom being small vertical faces, rocks and large boulders....all very scenic and pretty in good vis!

The lower mounting position where the pin would fit with a wrist mounted compass to give some sort of scale

A view inside a deck gun, this one has a more intact breech assembly and you can make out the various gubbins

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.

A bent anchor from the South Side of Beadnell Point

Another shot of the propellor tip, this time from the side, maybe looking at the two shots it makes sense.