Duo-Divers

Closer still and you can see the layout of the boat with the boiler towards stern of the vessel and some planks clinging to the bows

And the fish cared not! Having deployed my DSMB in about 14m I thought that I'd take a shot of the line going to the surface and you can just about make out the blob, wow!

A European Flounder (Platichthys flesus) quite commonly seen on dives, well ok quite often there on dives, due to their camouflage and passive nature you can get pretty close, just no sudden moves or they will zoom off.

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

A common hermit crab (Pagurus bernhardus), I just couldn't get it to stay still to get a shot of it's back end!

The picked bones of a dead creature, probably a fish, most probably a wrasse caught and returned by anglers.

Not as common as in Southern waters or even around Howick but here is a Lesser Spotted Catshark, or should that be dogfish? (Scyliorhinus canicula) Years ago you rarely saw any but they are becoming more common, in 2018 a party of divers got photos of a large Tope out at the Farne Islands.....apex predators you have been warned!

The seal eventually lay on the bottom and wanted to have its photo taken.....

There was a bit of solder 'snot' but this was easily removed by turning and gentle work with a dremel.

You will certainly get a few chances for 'davit' shots on the wreck, with lots pointing inboard which shows that lifeboats weren't launched in the minutes before she sank, hence the large loss of life.

Beadnell Point with a wet camera from the midway rest point, if you need a breather that is!

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!

Until we were lens to nose, so to speak!

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!

Sea Hare (aplysia punctata)

And here is the business end, not really good as you cant get a sense of scale

You can see that the 'wall' is more a stepped solid stone reef, smothered in life.