Duo-Divers

The sternpost of the Mistley is maybe 20 yards away next to a large pinnacle, I guess that she hit the pinnacle before foundering closer to land

The inside or West side of the boiler with fire hole etc on show

A 'random wreckage' shot, you can see the rope and shattered pot, so go steady on these dives as there are trapping hazards about.

Sponges tend to have colonised kelp by late in the season, I think that this particular sponge is Stelletta lactea but I could be wrong.

A shot showing part of a shoal of Saithe (Pollachius virens) hovering above the kelp line wiating for the tide to turn!

A Common Whelk (Nucella lapillus), this one had a chiton (Polyplcophora) along for the ride!

The stern driven windlass, all of the brass fittings were taken by one of the guys who I frequently talk to many years ago....

A keel pin from the site on the South Side of Beadnell Point

A scenic of one of the masts, snapped where it goes over some other wreckage, going away from the body of the wreck

The front end of a lobster (Homarus gammarus), there are more and more blue fiends on this site, a fact down to the lack of predators of smaller lobsters, that is to say not a huge amount of cod about!

A spider crab, I think to be specific a Toad Crab (Hyas coarctatus) as usual difficult to spot unless they move but when they realise that you have seen them then they will display!

And closer.......

On one particular stone there were loads of Candy striped flatworms (Prostheceraeus vittatus), not sure why as adjacent areas were devoid.

This is the 'gutter' in the middle of the site, with the steep side and shelving northern side meeting about 1/3 way out from south skeer.

The top of the Point is battered with wave and tide which makes it attractive for filter feeders such as barnacles which are securely anchored but weeds, well it is difficult but there are plenty of the 'bootlace' weeds which I guess are ideally shaped to apply minimal forces to the roots.