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A rather bedraggled Sqaut Lobster (Galathea squamifera) sitting within a Dead-mans finger (Alcyonium digitatum) this one had no claws hence it had lost it's hole and was hiding away in a filter feeder, judging by it's general appearance and barnacle covered carapice I would think, not long of this world.
Debris all around and most unidentifiable, in this case it's a frame of angle iron located adjacent to the 'horizontal boiler'.
Arty-farty shot of a Velvet Swimming Crab (Necora puber)
A Short Spined Sea-Scorpion (Myoxocephalus scorpius), a nice 'easy' fish to get nice photographs of, as you can probably tell if you go through all of the albums.
Another partially cleaned brass breech block.......
Concreted crap like a plum pudding of rust, brass bits and stones. Every year more is broken up as the sea gets 'underneath' and frees the brass. That's why those early dives are important, lots of bits freed and available to be picked up.
My 'northern most' lobbie, she was a good size and provided food for all of us along with rice and a delightful lemon and butter sauce.
One of the attarcations is a boat, a good place to write general abuse and look for things to remove and keep (why?)
Closer still and you can see the layout of the boat with the boiler towards stern of the vessel and some planks clinging to the bows
One of the spotting masts, I am assuming that there is a ladder inside for the crew to climb up to the exposed station located high above the deck
The top of the Point is battered with wave and tide which makes it attractive for filter feeders such as barnacles which are securely anchored but weeds, well it is difficult but there are plenty of the 'bootlace' weeds which I guess are ideally shaped to apply minimal forces to the roots.
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.
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
Flat bits of plate, be that deck or hull are all over the site, I think they are deck as they are flat with very little in the way of thick metal ribs, but I do get things wrong.
A small Common Hermit Crab (Pagurus bernhardus) in a discarded winkle shell, the bottom of the site is crawling with these critters, searching for food, squabbling with their brethern over shells and generally going about their daily business!
An initial 'zoom past' by a Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus) he returned later in the dive!
Head 'straight down' from the propellor and you will land on two large boilers, just follow the debris!
An immature cod (Gadus) this particularly colourful and lonesome specimen is obviously going to be a 'kelp cod' that's to say one of the sub-species(?) which stay inshore all year around and turn red as they age.
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