Baron Gautsch - 2016

You will certainly get a few chances for 'davit' shots on the wreck!
Once inside there is plenty of room to move about without many intact bulkheads you'd struggle to loose your buddy too!
Once inside there is plenty of room to move about without many intact bulkheads you'd struggle to loose your buddy too. The floor was wood with no metal plate behind so it's rotting away rapidly.
A shoal of sardines scurried past at one point, nothing large chasing though!
The wooden floor is disappearing over time, allowing more light to penetrate the wreck which is a double edged sword, do you want to do real penetration diving into 35m+ on a single?
More fish through the window
Once inside there is plenty of room to move about without many intact bulkheads you'd struggle to loose your buddy too!
Part of the wreck is covered in a large net, which hanging over the window looks quite nice.
A smaller meshed net also hangs into the top deck on the port side, it's really obvious and easy to navigate around.
Skylights rather than portholes but it would be nice.....wouldn't it!?!
Looking along the front of the promenade deck, the windows have long gone but the frames remain.
In the centre of the top deck as you swim back towards the funnels there are only the occasional uprights left, not sure how long before everything starts buckling.
You will certainly get a few chances for 'davit' shots on the wreck!
You will certainly get a few chances for 'davit' shots on the wreck, with lots pointing inboard which shows that lifeboats weren't launched in the minutes before she sank, hence the large loss of life.

You will certainly get a few chances for 'davit' shots on the wreck!
Once inside there is plenty of room to move about without many intact bulkheads you'd struggle to loose your buddy too!
Once inside there is plenty of room to move about without many intact bulkheads you'd struggle to loose your buddy too. The floor was wood with no metal plate behind so it's rotting away rapidly.
A shoal of sardines scurried past at one point, nothing large chasing though!
The wooden floor is disappearing over time, allowing more light to penetrate the wreck which is a double edged sword, do you want to do real penetration diving into 35m+ on a single?
More fish through the window
Once inside there is plenty of room to move about without many intact bulkheads you'd struggle to loose your buddy too!
Part of the wreck is covered in a large net, which hanging over the window looks quite nice.
A smaller meshed net also hangs into the top deck on the port side, it's really obvious and easy to navigate around.
Skylights rather than portholes but it would be nice.....wouldn't it!?!
Looking along the front of the promenade deck, the windows have long gone but the frames remain.
In the centre of the top deck as you swim back towards the funnels there are only the occasional uprights left, not sure how long before everything starts buckling.
You will certainly get a few chances for 'davit' shots on the wreck!
You will certainly get a few chances for 'davit' shots on the wreck, with lots pointing inboard which shows that lifeboats weren't launched in the minutes before she sank, hence the large loss of life.
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Typical geology, the surfaces are covered in Dead mans fingers (Alcyonium digitatum), the bottom being small vertical faces, rocks and large boulders....all very scenic and pretty in good vis!
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.
The vessel was scuttled at anchor and you can just about make out the brittle-star encrusted anchor chain just above the deck, the big smear of rust is on the top edge/side of a hawse pipe.
Lost fishing line, sometimes obvious, other times not so. Always take some cutting gear and never try to snap braid using fingers or hands!
Girders and struts from I am assuming the top structure of MV Yewglen
This was a bloody funny shaped fishing weight, quite heavy too, so I took a photo!
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 Lions Mane Jellyfish (Cyanea capillata), when they are about deco stops are always interesting!
George Jacob run by the Marine Quest at Eyemouth
G - With the cabinet maker doing the job machining and then joining up the three planks to a coffee table size piece
Exit points.........there are plenty of bits of the reef face which offer natural steps to aid getting out. BUT remember that the water level changes!
Now I have been doing some research and perhaps these 'spotty' sea hare (Aplysia punctuate) are in-fact 'green' sea slugs (Elysia viridis) I have noted the word green as apparently they are coloured based on their food, pretty much like the sea hare but have characteristic small spots of iridescence. Maybe further investigation?
Look carefully and you can see weights poking out!
A view of the bottom plus another piece of large debris, again WTF?
Lots of scallops (Pecten maximus) if you know what to look for!
When you get really close to the bows it does become a little more ship-like
Only one in this shot but I ended up making two reels....
'Arty-farty' alert!
Don't try this at home kids!!!
A Shanny (Lipophrys phalis) this one was living in an old hole on the pier that dried out at low water so maybe there was enough water in the hole to keep it going, alternatively it 'knew' to get out, hide and then zip back on the flood?
A couple of female Ballan Wrasse (Labrus bergylta) I think that they are in nesting mode, certainly the males are bright and flighty!
A typical north east wreck scene, plates n bits on a hard bottom
A very large, well the largest that I have ever seen Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris), eyes down!