Egypt - Southern Red Sea


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A valve identification plate, interestingly this one has raised lettering rather than details stamped in. This means that it must have been cast, a rather strange and expensive way to make simple ID plates!
Another 'arty-farty' showing an empty lobster pot standing on end....
A rather large Sea-Squirt
Look carefully and you can see weights poking out!
Wreckage is strewn all over the site, generally if it is 'big things' then it will have been from SS Abessinia a german ship sunk en-route back from it's internment in WWI
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.
A King....or Common....or Great Scallop (Pecten maximus) this one was just about to 'jet off'.
A stowed tangle net, complete with part decayed guillimot.
An arty shot of a Spider Crab (Maja brachydactylus), can you spot the eye?
An arty fary half and half shot
This is the top of the sternpost
A Spiny Spider Crab (Maja squinado) common enough down south on on the West Coast of Scotland but not so many around the Farne Islands.
A Common Starfish (Asterias rubens) this one was digging deep for I guess a cockle or similar that he had 'sensed'.
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'
This smaller donkey boiler is standing on one of the flate ends and large sections of the outer case have, over the years, come adrift meaning that you can look in on the various tubes and pipes. To find it when you get out from the cut through Knifestone follow the wall right.
On the West side of the site, towards the North end. It looks ideal for scallops but no sign of any or indeed empty predated shells.
Bizarre clowns at depth......great with a touch of narcosis!
A pretty little light, one of the guys thought 'deck light' but with a solid back and close to another two broken lights I would think a bulkhead light of some description, date late victorian to pre WWI