Duo-Divers

A good old RAF roundal...used everywhere apart from the pacific in WW2 (apparently they looked too much like the Japanese 'meatball')

A typical north east wreck scene, plates n bits on a hard bottom

And the fish cared not! Having deployed my DSMB in about 14m I thought that I'd take a shot of the line going to the surface and you can just about make out the blob, wow!

Until you reach the bottom 'proper' in about 25m of water which is gravel and sand for ever....

When you get out of the kelp zone you will reach a small cliff, varying in height between 2 and 3m

Nudibranch alert! This particular species appears to have electric blue tips when viewed in the water.

A colour shot of another breech assembly

Kelp (Family laminariales) does tend to be quite a long lived plant with the stem above say the first twenty centimeters quite a safe place for a plant to grow without the risk of sea-urchins 'browsing' you away. In this case dulse and other sea-weed encases the stem, making an eco-system up in the water column!

Dropping to the bottom about eighty meters from the cliff face and you are faced with a bottom comprising of boulders with coarse sand between them, the boulders vary in size from the size of cars to maybe a meter cubed.

As you approach the debris field you will find little lengths of lead coated wiring sticking out of the sand or protruding from under stones.

Movements records......Sd=Sunderland

An arty fary half and half shot

And in colour, not as much 'Scream' like but you get the idea!

Looking along the foredeck of the wreck, it's been heavily salvaged so not a lot of 'Ahhhhhh its a' type photos!

Brass petrol can tops from 1930's from another tosheroon at Beadnell

Dropping down, with a stone floor and walls the vis is uaually very good

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.

Maybe not totally original but having bullied the crab I pushed my torch inside the barrel of this gun..............

The rock formations are formed so that the 'vertical cliff' faces the shore and the slopes lead away to the east. You can see that the faces are quite fractured and home to loads of different life, some edible some not so

The wheels? Well oak obviously but I set in a rim of lead sheet recovered from the sea of course!

And closer.......

A Long Legged Spider Crab (Macropodia rostrata) there are loads on all or most sites, this is the most common 'camouflage'.

One of the attarcations is a boat, a good place to write general abuse and look for things to remove and keep (why?)