Duo-Divers

Common edible and tasty lobster (homarus gammarus) the area is home to a multitude of them!

A shot down the length of the 'horizontal boiler'.

A Short Spined Sea-Scorpion (Myoxocephalus scorpius), a nice 'easy' fish to get nice photographs of, as you can probably tell if you go through all of the albums.

A lebgth of conveyor belt, maybe used originally for lifting crushed stone from the quarry?

You get two colours of Plumose Anemone (Metridium senile) white and orange, both look like cold willies when closed up but very pretty when open and feeding!

Looking up at the side of the wreck you can see that plates, in this case' have fallen away or in some instances blasted to get at more valuable metal within enclosed spaces.

Not a good shot but one of the rebreather chaps next to the rudders, these stand about 6m proud of the bottom of the vessel and are intact despite the explosive forces used to remove the phosphor bronze propellors which were located very, very close.

And again from the 'inside' or maybe underneath. Now make sure you have a buddy if going under any tin-work to drag you out should there be a snagging event.

I took this one whilst lying flat on my back in 6m of water, clear and nice

Move a short distance from the wreck and the bottom is coated with brittle stars with arms 'waving' in the gentle current hoping to catch dinner.

This is the other side of the same assembly.......

Arty-farty alert!

A shot looking up the wall of the Point in about 9m of water, the kelp which lives on the vertical face is obvious, the barnacle band not so.

The upper mounting position where the pin would fit with a wrist mounted compass to give some sort of scale

Another 'arty-farty' showing an empty lobster pot standing on end....

The 'hump' of anchor chain

A bit of scrap for you rust heads out there, you will also find a wreckage field from the Mistley.

And a mechanical 'thing'

The lower mounting position where the pin would fit with a wrist mounted compass to give some sort of scale

The site is very,very tidal and as such smothered with Dead Mans Fingers and other species, some of which are not common on any other farnes site!

A group of Peacock fan worms (Sabella pavonina), these worms will 'snap' shut as soon as they sense water movement by the diver, so photographers take care.

Common octopus (Octopus vulgaris), he wasn't happy with a diver so not a lot of chance to get photographs.

Flat bits of plate, be that deck or hull are all over the site, I think they are deck as they are flat with very little in the way of thick metal ribs, but I do get things wrong.

Part of the stern section of SS Mistley, there is a small area where the girder construction is still present and maybe 1m above the seabed.

Scenic stuff with light coming through the hull where the plates have gone and we are left with ribs and bits only