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This is the 'type' of bottom which I was talking about, formed from loads of worm tubes, it's quite soft and sandy so can feel crunchy if your buoyancy control is poor.
The first anchor, of an early Danforth pattern!
A windlass, bow gear, hanging on the deck at ninety degrees to where it should be, if the wreck is on it's side it can be so disconcerting with good vis!
It was the perfect storm of North Easteries plus extreme cold, you don't tend to get much snow at Beadnell but we were cut off, even the road to Seahouses was shut with five feet deep drifts of snow
A winch which is located on the flat seabed in about 14m, well on a flat area of ship! Take care swimming around this lump as it is festooned with rope, some maybe from attempted lifts whilst others are probably from lost lobster pots.
A very large, well the largest that I have ever seen Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris), I knew that there was a big occie about as there is a noticeable 'lair' with loads of smashed edible crab parts, the trouble is that inside their hidey holes there is nothing to see.
A Long Legged Spider Crab (Macropodia rostrata) there are loads on all or most sites, this one didn't have a huge amount of camouflage, I guess that he had recently shed his exoskeleton
Looking back towards the Carnatic from the bowsprit, Abu Nuhas Reef
Arty-farty alert!
A shot looking up the wall of the Point in about 9m of water, the kelp which lives on the vertical face is obvious, the barnacle band not so.
A scenic of a couple of divers with part of the superstructure infront of them, this time in colour, as you can see the vis was very good despite the diving taking place in October.
A side view of the 'vertical' boiler, the boilers were well made and still intact, unlike those of SS Coryton at Ross Sands where you can swim inside to get nice atmospheric shots
Various small fish hovering about near the broken up sea-weed
I dropped into one particular sump in the rock and it was crawling with Flounder (Platicthys flesus) I got one photograph but they were zooming around like irate flying saucers but never left the sump.
Looking along the foredeck of the wreck, it's been heavily salvaged so not a lot of 'Ahhhhhh its a' type photos!
A view into the propellor shaft, simply taking a bearing along the shaft and follow over the sand and you will reach the other part of the wreck
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!
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