Duo-Divers

As always on wrecks watch out for bits and pieces sticking up that look a bit 'kelpy' but are metal. They can be sharp and will damage you and your dive suit! Be warned!

A butterfish (Pholis gunnellus), these colourful critters live from rockpools to depth, just stop and look, you'll see them

An immature cod (Gadus) this particularly colourful and lonesome specimen is obviously going to be a 'kelp cod' that's to say one of the sub-species(?) which stay inshore all year around and turn red as they age.

Just a random scenic shot, its a big old wreck

Brass petrol can tops from 1930's from another tosheroon at Beadnell

Side shot all done and pre-mounting.

A common hermit crab (Pagurus bernhardus), this one was in a strange part broken shell so you could see its 'soft' backend.

Ta-daaaah, the bow shot!

Looking along the front of the promenade deck, the windows have long gone but the frames remain.

Debris all around and most unidentifiable, in this case it's a section of hull plating.

Bloody plastic waste, arrrrrrgh!

When you get really close to the bows it does become a little more ship-like

It's been part polished now but this nameplate for the Boatswains Cabin was taken from SS Abessinia on Knifestone at the Farne Islands. There must be hundreds or perhaps thousands of dives per year and you can still, on occasion, pick up something 'nice'.

I know the location of a porthole which is currently covered, when the next storm removes the cover I will be there with my tools and implements!

Move away from the face and you reach a jumble of boulders, some with dead-mans fingers

Everywhere that you look the bottom isn't bedrock, it is formed from sections of ship, in some cases folded over and over forming very useful lobbie lairs

More wreckage that has just collapsed in on itself

This is the remains of the wooden salvage dock that sank during operations, it's even less photogenic than the ship and connected via a length of blue poly-prop rope so that divers can go from one to the other in a single dive

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

Not quite New Year but into a clarty site for a lobster

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

Debris all around and most unidentifiable, in this case it's a section of hull plating.

A straight view down to the haven between the two carrs, snow and ice on slaty sand, it was cold!