Duo-Divers

A smallish edible crab or Cancer pagurus, these seem to be more common on shallow shore dives.

This is the keel I reckon, only 'obvious' as the weeds have dropped away.

Not the greatest but a Sea Comb, probably a Sea Gooseberry (Pleurobrachia plies) or at least that is what I have always called em when anyone asks! I like watching the little bits down the side change colour as they move, a very interesting little critter, I should take a bit of matt black plastic to try and get a photograph of one that is clearer.

The only place that I have ssen something similar is a 'fancy support' to a compass binnacle, this however would not have been fitted to MV Yewglen and is obviously an earlier vintage

All turned and time to polish!

A large shoal of fish, they were Saithe (Pollachius virens) and although in a large shoal there wasn't much bravery in numbers as they were very 'skittery' 

A typical north east wreck dive, plates, boilers n bits. In this case probably Jan Van Ryswyck although a few vessels have foundered so the bits are somehwhat mixed!

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.

Following questions to experts they are all agreed that it was a 'porpoise' with the natural history museum going a bit further and saying 'probably' a harbour porpoise.

A compressed air tank, as used to blow ballast from the tanks and enable the submarine to surface. There are loads of these dotted around the site, they are not torpedos, lost dive cylinders or similar and to date I haven't managed to find any with the brass valves in place.

A close up inside the mantle of a Lions Mane Jellyfish (Cyanea capillata) in this case it was obviously on the way out with no stingers and a large hole where something had tried to eat it. This allowed me to get quite close and get some nice shots of the structure around the mantle. By the start of October the beaches up here are covered in dead jellies, sad and potentially dangerous for children.

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

Having extracted this common lobster (Hommarus gammarus) I found it was berried, grrrrh!

A lobster (Homarus gammarus), there are more and more blue fiends on this site, to the extent that they are being potted as shown in this shot!

The concreted in anchor, this is located on its own 'up' the gully on the seaward side of the Hopper rock

A Sea-Hare (Aplysia punctata) these large nudibranch come in a variety of colours, depending I think on what they have been eating.

But get near the engine room and it is all a bit of a buggers muddle of blasted bits

In this case the camouflage of the Pogge (Agonus cataphractus) wasn't good enough and this live fish was caught by a Velvet swimming Crab (Necora puber)