Duo-Divers

A side view of the 'vertical' boiler, the boilers were well made and still intact, unlike those of SS Coryton at Ross Sands where you can swim inside to get nice atmospheric shots

A high altitude gun, you would have needed some 'minerals' to be operating this even with the aeroplanes and airships of the period!

A King....or Common....or Great Scallop (Pecten maximus), can you see him?

Haraaaaaaaaaald! More scrap.

There are 'odd' sections of phosphor bronze pipe dotted around the site, I have put a fishing weight on this one to give some sense of scale. I may be forced to attack it with a hammer and chisel in 2017!

A Lions Mane Jellyfish (Cyanea capillata), when they are about deco stops are always interesting!

Not a great photograph but this little critter is a Fifteen Spined Stickleback (Spinachia spinachia) it's really camouflaged and only became apparent when it made a dash for some kelp! A small fish maybe 10cm long I am sure that they are more common than they first appear!

Heading down the boulder slope for the starting point, good vis but don't go straight to the bottom, you will go round and round in a pit!

This section of deck has been thrown to the shore end of the main gully and is quite photogenic as it stands proud of the sea-bed so options for photos, just make sure that the sun is in the right place!

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!

Huge shaols of Coalfish (Pollachius virens), these were bigger boys and had chased awy the smaller baitfish. They were probably waiting to ambush any fish swept over the top of the wreck when the tide got going properly.

This Pink (or Northern) Prawn (Pandalus montagui) was being actively stalked by a Common Lobster (Homarus Gammarus), you can see the lobbies claws!

Settling down on a patch of gravel and waiting until I bimbled over.......

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

Arty-farty shot of the wall with kelp waving in the current, I think that the cotrrect terminology is atmospheric?

Some sort of winching arrangement, this is a large section of wreckage within a short distance of the boilers

A bit of deco after the bounce dive, yes the other guy did make it!

Everywhere that you look the bottom isn't bedrock, it is formed from sections of ship, although it is all well broken up and smothered in filter feeders which acts as a reminder that the dive is particularly tidal.

The ships were built for speed, with plates rivetted together, the rivets will have been made from a softer material with less cobalt/manganese so have rotted away leaving rows of holes and allowing the paltes to start slipping.

Arty-farty alert!

A shot looking up the wall of the Point in about 9m of water, the kelp which lives on the vertical face is obvious, the barnacle band not so.

A shot showing four rods coming out from the sand clos to the propellor tip, so probably part of the engine mounting arrangement.

Feedin' the wrasse!!

In this case Ballan Wrasse (Labrus bergylta) on a smashed edible sea urchin (Echinus esculentus), don't try this at home kids.

Another 'arty-farty' showing an empty lobster pot standing on end....

When the sand starts having odd cobbles dotted on it then you are reaching the end and expect to see boulders and kelp again!

C - Getting it cut was a chew but I knew that it was dried after a year in the shed