Duo-Divers

Nudibranch alert! This particular species appears to have electric blue tips when viewed in the water.

This is a head on shot of a Greater Spotted Dogfish, or Bull Huss or catshark or  Nursehound (Scyliorhinus stellaris) they are becoming a more common visitor every year.

The wheels? Well oak obviously but I set in a rim of lead sheet recovered from the sea of course!

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 male Cuckoo Wrasse (Labrus bimaculatus), this one was very interested in what I was about, approaching the camera dome for a good look-see.

Dropping to the bottom about eighty meters from the cliff face and you are faced with a bottom comprising of boulders with coarse sand between them, the boulders vary in size from the size of cars to maybe a meter cubed.

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!

This is a section of hull, you can kinda see that the inside of the hull is on the bottom and comprises of a mesh of flat wooden sections, the actual hull is face up and looks like what it is....flat steel

A pretty little light, one of the guys thought 'deck light' but with a solid back and close to another two broken lights I would think a bulkhead light of some description, date late victorian to pre WWI

A Plaice (Pleuronectes platessa), relatively common around Beadnell due to the mixed ground.

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!

In the shale bedrock you will also occasionally see some very nice fossils, in this case some prehistoric bi-valve

A Sea-Hare (Aplysia punctata) these large nudibranch come in a variety of colours, depending I think on what they have been eating.

Pretty sure that this is another Shanny (Lipophrys phalis) that had also set up shop in the cut off end of the pier hand rail. This one doesn't dry out but the fish wouldn't come out any further than this.

L - And this is how it ended up, picked up on 1st March 2018 and finished a year later 

Kelp (Family laminariales) does tend to be quite a long lived plant with the stem above say the first twenty centimeters quite a safe place for a plant to grow without the risk of sea-urchins 'browsing' you away. In this case dulse and other sea-weed encases the stem, making an eco-system up in the water column!

Sea Hare (aplysia punctata) you get loads and loads of them on the south side of the point feeding and breeding!

Under the thick layer of dulse is a load of angled metal work, I am guessing part of the vessel where there is a step up/down.

Engine parts sticking out of the sand, I assume these held on the cylinders........

I messed around with the images as the three larger holes do have a look of 'The Scream' by Munch, what do you think?

Everywhere that you look the bottom isn't bedrock, it is formed from sections of ship.