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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.
A view over the 'prehistoric shoreline' it's an obvious feature and can be seen on lots of shore sites.
The vis tends to be good as the bottom and walls are stone rather than silty mud like some other UK inland dive shites, ooops sites!
Girders and bits and bats that have flattened onto the bed-rock in the main gully
Just about to drop 'over the edge' and down to 50m+, gulp!!!
Starboard side and the wreck is slowly disappearing on a flooding tide...
A general topographical shot, there are several large stone pinnacles on the site, the largest rising maybe 4m from the seabed and with a circumference of 50m. They do degrade over time as they are formed from a softish rock and do receive a battering every year from Southerly and Easterly storms.
Work over the site and you will see odd bits of iron jammed into cracks and fissures on the sea-bed
Holes in the back of the fin, makes things much easy to put on and take off
This sponge, sometimes known as Goose Bump sponge (Dysidea fragilis) are are over the site, you can see them on the general topography photograph in this album
Looking at the breech assembly of a deck gun.
Lobsters (Hommarus gammarus) in a pot, I think that these will be put back as they are 'borderline'.
Scrapyard, if you look carefully you will be able to see Albert Steptoe, he's a dirty old man!
Some sort of winching arrangement, this is a large section of wreckage within a short distance of the boilers
I do get carried away with Starfish photographs, in this case a Common Starfish (Asterias rubens), mainly because you can get damned close for macro shots of all the parts!
A Lions Mane Jellyfish (Cyanea capillata), when they are about deco stops are always interesting!
Again the spindle to reel shaft was a chew and again I resorted to soldering in place, looks ok and seems quite 'tight'
Not as common as in Southern waters or even around Howick but here is a Lesser Spotted Catshark, or should that be dogfish? (Scyliorhinus canicula) Years ago you rarely saw any but they are becoming more common, in 2018 a party of divers got photos of a large Tope out at the Farne Islands.....apex predators you have been warned!
Sea Hare (aplysia punctata) you get loads and loads of them on the south side of the point feeding and breeding!
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