Beadnell - Knacker Hole (2020)

Apparently these are not immature or juvenile, rather they are commonly known as 'possum shrimps', try Mysida on a search engine. Popular as live fish food in the aquarium trade apparently.....well now we all know!
A European Flounder (Platichthys flesus) quite commonly seen on dives, well ok quite often there on dives, due to their camouflage and passive nature you can get pretty close, just no sudden moves or they will zoom off.
Just a scenic showing the vis on this particular dive, it was around the 10m mark, probably a tad better.
Scenic showing the vis, spot the trash in this photo!
The Sea hare (Aplysia punctata) a common enough critter around the uk coastline but we tend to get explosions of them every couple of years.
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?

Apparently these are not immature or juvenile, rather they are commonly known as 'possum shrimps', try Mysida on a search engine. Popular as live fish food in the aquarium trade apparently.....well now we all know!
A European Flounder (Platichthys flesus) quite commonly seen on dives, well ok quite often there on dives, due to their camouflage and passive nature you can get pretty close, just no sudden moves or they will zoom off.
Just a scenic showing the vis on this particular dive, it was around the 10m mark, probably a tad better.
Scenic showing the vis, spot the trash in this photo!
The Sea hare (Aplysia punctata) a common enough critter around the uk coastline but we tend to get explosions of them every couple of years.
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?
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As is my wont a scenic shot of the bows.
In common with most southern sites there were loads of Snale locks anemones (Anemonia viridis) on surfaces where there was sun and water movement.
An internal photo of SS Breda
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.
The divers favourite a Tompot Blenny (Parablennius gattorugine) this one was busy 'ripping' bits of food from a childs drop-net that you can just see in the background, so more than happy to pose for pictures as there was food about!
You can get inside one boiler and in sunny weather get shots through the perforated section
The pile of anchor chain, this has obviously just dropped straight out of the locker and forms a big two meter square lump in a gully
These weeds 'reached for the surface' and with the small fish swimming about they were like trees and the fish like birds, pretty?
A Devonshire cup-coral (Caryophyllia smithii), there are loads of these multi-coloured critters on the wreckage
A section of the bottom of the hull (I guess) which is double bottomed, this is certainly from MV Yewglen and quite large, maybe 10 yards square
The northern, vertical rock face is smothered in hydroids, sea-squirts and boring corals but no dead mans fingers, it's still nice and pretty in bright conditions
A Red Cushion Star (Porania pulvillus) this one was half on/half off a hatch so made quite a nice subject as there was access to the top as per this shot.
A King....or Common....or Great Scallop (Pecten maximus), they were even sitting on hard rock!
The softer compound rivets are also rotting away on this wreck
At last something recognisable, in this case a small calibre gun and associated turret
This is a pointer, but off what? Dimensionally it looks too dumpy to be from a clock, I thought perhaps an inclinometer or similar from a boat.
A scaling shot of the thinnest section, this one doesnt seem as tapered as others and may be a spar rather than mast......
The entry to the tunnel, it's straight with no real hazards but when you go in you cant see the end so not for the faint hearted!