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More shots of the debris field, later in the year so a 'better' water colour!
Pretty sure that this is another Shanny (Lipophrys phalis) that had also set up shop in the cut off end of the pier hand rail. This one doesn't dry out but the fish wouldn't come out any further than this.
Eat my camera set-up!!
'Arty-farty' alert!
Scenic stuff with light coming through the hull where the plates have gone and we are left with ribs and bits only
A turbine or part thereof or a focussing arrangement from a search-light?
A Topknot (Zeugopterus punctatus) you will see these flatfish stuck onto the bottom and underside of crevices if you look carefully on dives over rocky ground. The skin is coarse so you can easily get hold of this docile fish and bag him for tea, should you wish. A word of warning they tend to be infested with worms!
The reel/rod feet were a bit of a chew, I tried to machine the brass to take a couple of M3 cheesehead screws but that wasn't 'right' so ended up brazing on the feet and then 'back filling' the machined holes for that little bit extra strength
A large Whelk (Buccinum undatum) you see lots of them and if you want to eat them then put in a baited trap.
There are 'odd' sections of phosphor bronze pipe dotted around the site, I have put a fishing weight on this one to give some sense of scale. I may be forced to attack it with a hammer and chisel in 2017!
And the business end of the same gun, in this case a crab has set-up shop but most of the time they are home to conger eels!
Not sure what this is......a mechanism with a brass ring on one side......could be some sort of mounting and rotational device for a searchlight?
A close up of some 100 year old teak decking, in the shelter this decking has lasted remarkably well and is still 'tough' and not at all spongey and falling apart.
A group of Peacock fan worms (Sabella pavonina), these worms will 'snap' shut as soon as they sense water movement by the diver, so photographers take care.
Plates and spars towards the stern of the wreck
The cascabel is turned and there is a 10mm hole machined in the brass blank and it's time to go!
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.
An 'arty shot' looking up at the wave pattern from below, the knack to this is choosing the optimum depth of water, moving slowly along and breathing very slowly.
More scrap.....I love it!!
It was a bait-ball but obviously not sandeels, on closer examination they appeared to be Sprat (Sprattus sprattus). Locally they would be called Brit which is a catch all name for immature herring, mackeral and sprat which form a pillar to the local food chain.
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