Duo-Divers

A smallish lobster (Homarus gammarus) out for a stroll in-among the kelp and weed.

A pair of breeding Edible Crabs (Cancer pagurus)  The male will carry around the female until she sheds to make sure that it's his sperm that is used to fertilise the eggs.

This can only be a section of keel as it is thick, wide steel that would have had no place on the upper part of the vessel

Common Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis), probably why a lot of 'non-locals' dive Babbacombe, I was a touch late this year.

Is it a Lesser Spotted Dogfigh.......or a Small-spotted Cat-shark? At least the scientists agree that it is Scyliorhinus canicula

Usually the top of this boiler is the first thing you see when descending, you can make out the access hole for fuel and the steam pipes

A - It started with a bit of wood on the beach to the North of Bamburgh

A high altitude gun, you would have needed some 'minerals' to be operating this even with the aeroplanes and airships of the period!

An internal photo of SS Breda

A Long Clawed Squat Lobster (Munida rugosa), this one was eating a still pulsing Lions Mane Jellyfish (Cyanea capillata)

A Sea-squirt (Ascidiella asperse), this one has a rough outer surface so collects silt and the like.

A Velvet Swimming Crab (Necora puber) hiding under a Dead Mans Finger (Alcyonium digitatum), there can be quite a few creepy crawlies hidden away you simply have to take the time and look!

Horse Mussel (Modiolus modiolus) these large mussels tend to be solitary rather than in huge beds and taste ghastly so don't bother chopping them out from their homes embedded in the sea-bed.

Dropping into the main gully one of the first things that you notice is the rust stained sand, then larger 'lumps' and as you head inshore the gully tightens to an end and you have sections of the steel rubbing strip and what is now apparently the bows of the ship.

And more bits from the broken up boiler.............

Drop over to the 'hull side' of the vessel and it's still pretty messed around.

And of course there is more life, including the Velvet swimming Crab (Necora puber) which are almost everywhere and are voracious predators catching fish!

A large lobster (Homarus gammarus) in between two plates, these only come out at night!

A shot of the sea-bed in about twenty five meters off the Harcarrs, its all flat rock, small gravel beds and short drop offs.

Fishing lines criss-crossing the bottom, not ideal for divers of aquatic animals......

A small shellfish, probably some type of oyster. I took this photograph as I have never seen one before and thought it may be a 'foreign invader', it isn't!

A Ling (Molua molua), this one zipped past me at speed and went into it's hidey hole, it was quite a size, maybe three feet long.