Duo-Divers

Is it a plant...is it a vegetable? I really don't know but suspect that it may actually be some sort of egg. There are always a few about but they do appear and then disppear in quite a short time-scale!

A close up of some 100 year old teak decking, in the shelter this decking has lasted remarkably well and is still 'tough' and not at all spongey and falling apart.

A hatch with the actual cut-out still 'envisionable', is there such a word? There should be!

The velvet swimming crab (necora puber), there are always some about and 'prod' one and it will swim away.....honest!

There are more and more Bull Huss (Scyliorhinus stellaris) in the area and this one was relatively lively and wouldn't let me get close for a photograph.

Not too happy at all!

Bits of MV Yewglen wedged and jammed into the Little Rock

Sea-squirts and rock boring sponge, so different from North East species!

A bit of an 'arty-farty' in this case looking up at Black Rock from near the bottom in about 6m of water!

Common octopus (Octopus vulgaris), he wasn't happy with a diver so not a lot of chance to get photographs.

Wreckage from SS Loch Leven which foundered without the loss of life, not an oft dived site but very nice scenery plus rust!

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.

A stowed tangle net, complete with part decayed guillimot.

An internal photo of SS Breda

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.

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

Another boiler, this one has a large lump of machinery to the south and is pretty much intact

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!

A Hermit Crab (Pagurus bernhardus) had set up shop in an old whelk shell, te problem was that it was far to small and spent most of the time looking out of a hole half way down the shell!