Duo-Divers

Head up the slope from the boilers in a south westerly direction and you will find a jumble of winches and machinery

Everywhere that you look the bottom isn't bedrock, it is formed from sections of ship.

A Sand Brittle Star (Ophiura ophiura), on the deeper wrecks there were odd ones on the sea-bed rather than the thick carpet of brittles seen on the shallower stuff.

The joint 'tween twelve inch gun and turret at one of the rear guns, these are some size!

Debris all around and most unidentifiable, in this case it's a part of a mast or kingpost arrangement, I think!

This is a section of hull, you can kinda see that the inside of the hull is on the bottom and comprises of a mesh of flat wooden sections, the actual hull is face up and looks like what it is....flat steel

Think that this is a Montagus Blenny (Coryphoblennius galerita) there were always plenty warming themselves on the steps. The fact that the seals are fed fish there and there will be 'bits' also probably attracts them!

If you look down into the heavily salvaged engine space you can see the prop shaft, the hole down is about 20m to the inverted deck, quite a drop.....

The open end being reinforced with a ring of brass made me think 'ordanance'

Lobsters (Hommarus gammarus) in a pot, I think that these will be put back as they are 'borderline'.

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

An initial 'zoom past' by a Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus) he returned later in the dive!

The trunions would be the widest section, so I marked them off and started to turn the piece.....

Aa bit salty round the eyes so a tad dehydrated

A view on the flange end, it's all rusting nicely which is down to the bad conditions 'ripping away' the weed......the metal rusts, weeds recolonise, weeds are ripped off and around we go until there is no metal left!

The common edible crab (cancer pagarus) you tend to get only smaller ones in shallow water but there are still plenty of them about.

An 'A' frame located adjacent to the stern of SS Mistley, not surprising bearing in mind that she was a steam trawler.

Where the sandstone bedrock 'pokes through' the boulders it is worn into some fantastical shapes

When you head 'off-piste' away from the main body there are still large lumps of wreckage

Tubes from the broken up boiler.......

A Pogge (Agonus cataphractus) or is that Hook-nose or Armoured Bullhead, these are a relativeliy common critter but with their camouflage you tend to see their pearly white barbules before anything else.

Another 'arty farty' this time shallow water and seaweed being bent ever so slightly by the incoming tide.

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.

An oyster clamped down on the pier. there were quite a few on the pier but I didn't spot any on rocks under the water.......