Duo-Divers

A Common Hermit Crab (Pagurus bernhardus) this one is in a winkle shell and was quite happy trying to stare me down, cheeky little blighter!

Ahhhh, bollards! Well at least this is an identifiable lump in the middle of the wreckage

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.

Debris all around and most unidentifiable, in this case it's looks a bit like the trunion end of a cannon, which obviously it can't be. On reflection the end of a mast?

Some times all that you see are grip wires sticking out of the sand.......

As you get closer to the cliff then there is more sandstone bedrock and the doleritic limestone boulders get smaller.....there are also more edible sea-urchins, not that you would!

The harbout outer wall, submitted for a competition, who knows?

Looking back towards the Carnatic from the bowsprit, Abu Nuhas Reef

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

Another partially cleaned brass breech block.......

Looking towards Dell Point, not sure that you can clearly see the tosheroon in the watery winter sunshine

Trunions marked up and second containment done.....

A smaller meshed net also hangs into the top deck on the port side, it's really obvious and easy to navigate around.

The axle set was a bit of a cheat but not seen and strong enough

And again in the rocks you will see lobbies (Hommarus gammarus)

More identifiable bits, the steam powered windlass that was mounted near the bow, the main steel mast in lying to the left (North) up and onto a reef and there are bits of bollard and the like adjacent.

A Hermit Crab (Pagurus bernhardus) these are always good subjects and whilst they may 'nip' inside their shells when you approach it isn't long before the peep out again!

This is the rounded section of stern and you can see how it's all falling apart as age causes a general degradation of the thinner steel used on these vessels, I don't think that there will be much left of the smaller vessels on the bicentennary of WW1

A shot of the sea-bed in about twenty five meters off the Harcarrs, its all flat rock, small gravel beds and short drop offs.

These Spiny Starfish (Marthasterias glacialis) are very common and again in common with most starfish a good subject for macro work as you can get close and take very good textural and close up shots.

Looking north from the Haven out to sea and the Inner Farnes, it was really bad, really, really bad!

Not too happy at all!

The underside of SS Rondo is covered with Peacock Worms Sabella pavonina) get too close and they 'snap' closed so approach very....very....very slowly and start snapping when you are in range and still moving forward.

Part of the steering mechanism of SS Breda, easy to get at provided you commit yourself to a full circuit of the area.