Sitting and waiting........
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.
Looking up at the side of the wreck you can see that plates, in this case' have fallen away or in some instances blasted to get at more valuable metal within enclosed spaces.
Another gratuitous 'bow shot' this wreck is real nice and in quite good condition!
With a lattice work of members that are still in place, the boat was of light-weight construction and lots of sections of plate are long gone
A turbine or part thereof or a focussing arrangement from a search-light?
More s'cenic stuff 'showing the hull rent where the engine room has been blasted open.
A mast, again off into the gloom
One of the gun barrels, SMS Brummer was primarily a mine laying crusier so the guns were used to bully anything smaller and the engines to outrun anything bigger!
Scenic stuff with Poor Cod, Pout and other small baitfish amoung the ribs and spars
Large sections of plate have fallen away leaving coourful ribs, spars anmd superstructure all over
This is the rounded section of stern and you can see how it's all falling apart as age causes a general degradation of the thinner steel used on these vessels, I don't think that there will be much left of the smaller vessels on the bicentennary of WW1
Again, great vis as you can see with two divers among the ribs and spars
A windlass, bow gear, hanging on the deck at ninety degrees to where it should be, if the wreck is on it's side it can be so disconcerting with good vis!
That's me that is!
Deco stops can eb made less boring trying to get a photo of yourself in gas bubbles coming from guys who have just got onto the shot-line, sad but true!
