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The cock-pit, you can see that all removeable bits have gone, that's the good old UK diver for you!
A Bloody Henry (Henricia oculata) common enough but a splash of purple on a dive!
Not quite New Year but into a clarty site for a lobster
Another 'arty farty', sunbeams in shallow water!
Debris all around and most unidentifiable, in this case it's a section of hull plating.
More scrap.....I love it!!
An odd-ball pretty with an optimistic hermit crab (Pagurus bernhardus) living half-way down a shell. The chances of it moving the shell are low to non-existant!
A typical north east wreck dive, plates, boilers n bits. In this case probably Jan Van Ryswyck although a few vessels have foundered so the bits are somehwhat mixed!
Until you reach the bottom 'proper' in about 25m of water which is gravel and sand for ever....
Three Sea Hares (Lepus marinus) in a bit of a stack. Their colour is defined by diet so the top one has been eating almost exclusively dulse whilst the other two have been eating some green stuff, most likely Sea Luttuce.
Arty-farty shot of a pinnacle
A young and undecorated Decorator Crab, or technically a Long Legged Spider Crab (Macropodia rostrata) loads of em on SS Glanmire on weekend on 1st April.
And here is the business end, not really good as you cant get a sense of scale
A Tompot blenny (Parablennius gattorugine), this one was sitting out in the open.
Move away from the face and you reach a jumble of boulders, some with dead-mans fingers
Harbour Crab (Liocarcinus depurator), quite a common critter but usually very skitterish and keen to be out of the way.
A flatfish, species TBC!
Sea-squirts and rock boring sponge, so different from North East species!
Ahhhh, bollards! Well at least this is an identifiable lump in the middle of the wreckage
Bimble around most sites up here in Gods country and you will soon feel like the Pied Piper with shoals of immature Coalfish (Pollachius virens) following you about hoping to grab any tasty morsel that you may dislodge or cause to break cover. the knack is working back on yourself to get a photograph!
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