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The front end of a lobster (Homarus gammarus), there are more and more blue fiends on this site, a fact down to the lack of predators of smaller lobsters, that is to say not a huge amount of cod about!
Again the wreckage from the port side, there are more planks than you would think as I am sure that the wreck would have been heavily salvaged by locals!
A pile of coins! From a modern 20p piece to some very old stuff it collects and stays there until such a time as the sand is moved by a storm
More girders and struts, this is a good distance from the main lumps of superstructure but the shallow water and big seas does increasingly move stuff about
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.
Wrecky bits against the reef- face
This is the other side of the same assembly.......
A flatfish, species TBC!
Wreckage from SS Loch Leven which foundered without the loss of life, not an oft dived site but very nice scenery plus rust!
A Devonshire cup-coral (Caryophyllia smithii), there are loads of these multi-coloured critters on the wreckage
But get near the engine room and it is all a bit of a buggers muddle of blasted bits
This is about mid-ships by my reckoning, could be the top of a capstan or similar, again this hasn't been visible for a number of years.
Huge shaols of Coalfish (Pollachius virens), these were bigger boys and had chased awy the smaller baitfish. They were probably waiting to ambush any fish swept over the top of the wreck when the tide got going properly.
As you get closer to the cliff then there is more sandstone bedrock and the doleritic limestone boulders get smaller.....there are also more edible sea-urchins, not that you would!
And this is said 'brass section' telling the gunner how to 'offnen', although I'm sure that they would have been pretty sure of what to do.....
The stern driven windlass, all of the brass fittings were taken by one of the guys who I frequently talk to many years ago....
Move away from the face and you reach a jumble of boulders, some with dead-mans fingers
The harbout outer wall, submitted for a competition, who knows?
It's been part polished now but this nameplate for the Boatswains Cabin was taken from SS Abessinia on Knifestone at the Farne Islands. There must be hundreds or perhaps thousands of dives per year and you can still, on occasion, pick up something 'nice'.
I know the location of a porthole which is currently covered, when the next storm removes the cover I will be there with my tools and implements!
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