Duo-Divers

A view of the bottom plus another piece of large debris, again WTF?

A scaling shot of the thinnest section, this one doesnt seem as tapered as others and may be a spar rather than mast......

The vis tends to be good as the bottom and walls are stone rather than silty mud like some other UK inland dive shites, ooops sites!

The carriage was to be made from 'period oak'

A typical north east wreck dive, plates, boilers n bits. In this case probably Jan Van Ryswyck although a few vessels have foundered so the bits are somehwhat mixed!

Some of the armoured plates have been removed and the remaining ribs are quite photogenic

Once inside there is plenty of room to move about without many intact bulkheads you'd struggle to loose your buddy too!

Trying to give some sort of sense of scale how large the rock formations stand off the bottom, in this case the goody and lift bag stand about 7ft tall

A Long Legged Spider Crab (Macropodia rostrata) there are loads on all or most sites, this is the most common 'camouflage'.

When you get out of the kelp zone you will reach a small cliff, varying in height between 2 and 3m

A shoal of sardines scurried past at one point, nothing large chasing though!

All of the time keep an eye open for Lions Mane Jellyfish (Cyanea capillata) they sting and the tentacles are a few meters long, always approach from up-tide! 

Part of the engine assembly, in this case a con rod on the main shaft, not easy to get a sense of scale but it's B----I----G.

Not sure if this is hull or bent deck, it is on the Point side of you in the main gully at the shore end, always a blue fiend or two in residence but careful as there are always fishing weights and lines in this vicinity.

This is the lair and just visible part of the Common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) that lives there, if you look in some of the 'squattie burrows' quite a few contain octopus that have eaten the original owner and set up shop!

This is a section of I guess superstructure where the plate has long since been bashed/rusted away. There are plenty of bits like this around the site but this one, at the inshore end of the main gully, is odd-ball as it 'sits up' meaning that any photos can be a bit more interesting.

On the southern side the edge is under-cut close to the deep gutter, with various critters living in the space under the rock

Even more bits from the broken up boiler.......

Large lengths of plastic service pipe are ideal for training in an overhead environment

I do get carried away with Starfish photographs, in this case a Common Starfish (Asterias rubens), mainly because you can get damned close for macro shots of all the parts!

Arty-farty shot of a Velvet Swimming Crab (Necora puber)

Plastic waste, again, arrrrgh!