Duo-Divers

Back in the day we refered to this as 'scrattings' where lobsters (Homarus gammarus) scraped sand from there hidey holes, you could tell that they were in residence due to the large amount of dirty sand excavated from their summer homes!

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

Ribs on the port side near the bow of SS Thesis, you can see from the 'raw metal' that this area has not had a chance to be colonised by sea-life since the last lot of hull plate fell away. Sad but considering it's age not surprising.

A common hermit crab (Pagurus bernhardus), I just couldn't get it to stay still to get a shot of it's back end!

Not a great photograph but this little critter is a Fifteen Spined Stickleback (Spinachia spinachia) it's really camouflaged and only became apparent when it made a dash for some kelp! A small fish maybe 10cm long I am sure that they are more common than they first appear!

Some sort of dead-eye or similar, this just sits in the middle of one of the gullies

Pretty sure that this is a Shanny (Lipophrys phalis) that had set up shop in the cut off end of the pier hand rail. This 'dries out' at low water so either the hole has water inside or the fish darts out and waits until the tide comes up again!

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.

Head 'straight down' from the propellor and you will land on two large boilers, just follow the debris!

This lot, 187kg, was raised over the weekend of 11/12 June 22 from a single fishing mark (The Doctors or Wash House @ Howick).

You have to worry about the total amount of lead festering in the sea around our coastline.

A view over the broken 'bottom' with a random diver. At times the site does resemble diver soup usually when prevailing conditions are poor limiting access to other areas or when the seals are in residence.

And here is the business end, not really good as you cant get a sense of scale

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

Wreckage from SS Loch Leven which foundered without the loss of life, not an oft dived site but very nice scenery plus rust!

A scenic of a couple of divers with part of the superstructure infront of them.

Keel again.

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!

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

Photo 2 and still squabblin' the pair of Lobsters (Homarus gammarus) arguing over a hidey hole and not a particularly good one, basically a rock over one of the cracks which run down the flat face of the South Side of beadnell Point.