Duo-Divers

A shot of the sea-bed in about twenty five meters off the Harcarrs, its all flat rock, small gravel beds and short drop offs.

Picked up almost on Brownsman by the wreck of Snowdonia. Not sure what it is, it is most like a loom weight and I 'buy' that monks lived on the islands and will have weaved.

Asked the experts so let's see!

Looking along the wreckage of the Mistley, you can see the ribs or joints on the bottom.

Atmospheric shot of a Lions Mane Jellyfish (Cyanea capillata) come late summer there are more and more close to shore, watch out that pack quite a sting!

Iron pieces in some of the gullys that have been scoured out since last winter, they could have been virtually anything

Some sort of dead-eye or similar, this just sits in the middle of one of the gullies

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

It was the perfect storm of North Easteries plus extreme cold, you don't tend to get much snow at Beadnell but we were cut off, even the road to Seahouses was shut with five feet deep drifts of snow

Gas works!

Side shot all done and pre-mounting.

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.

A scenic of a couple of divers with part of the superstructure infront of them.

By late summer the once bare stems of the kelp are little microcosms of weeds and small animals, the winter storms smashes everything up but twelve months later it's all back.

and closer.....

King scallop (Pecten maximus) not a huge amount of 'live ones' here but loads of shells from where they are gutted by divers. Those present seem to have been 'thrown back' by divers who realise that they were undersized!

A section of the bottom of the hull (I guess) which is double bottomed, this is certainly from MV Yewglen and quite large, maybe 10 yards square

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 very large, well the largest that I have ever seen Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris), eyes down!