Duo-Divers

As you look along the bottom of the gullies you will see that the hull-plate has moulded onto the bedrock whilst the vertical sections are rapidly being eaten away by the sea

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

Being a bit of a pedant I decided that I would need to fix a point where the fishing line could be secured.....

You can now look along the prop-shaft tunnel

A view of the sections of masts if you are heading away from the Hopper, they are in a section of sand filled gully at the base of the rock face

The rock face on 'The Hopper', its a straight drop into about 18m of water, with little or no weed, only a little kelp near the top of the face and then some filter feeders lower down. A lovely little site!

Is it a Lesser Spotted Dogfigh.......or a Small-spotted Cat-shark? At least the scientists agree that it is Scyliorhinus canicula

Another gratuitous 'bow shot' this wreck is real nice and in quite good condition!

The first anchor, of an early Danforth pattern!

A very large, well the largest that I have ever seen Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris), I knew that there was a big occie about as there is a noticeable 'lair' with loads of smashed edible crab parts, the trouble is that inside their hidey holes there is nothing to see.

A sunset to mark the end of shore diving for the 2022 season

The tosheroon just after I have started scratting, you can see some scrap iron in the foreground, no interest to me!

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

One of my regular buddies, Hud coming out at the bottom, to be greeted with a flash!

The propellor, don't go past as there is nothing else to see!

A flatfish, species TBC!

An immature cod (Gadus) this particularly colourful and lonesome specimen is obviously going to be a 'kelp cod' that's to say one of the sub-species(?) which stay inshore all year around and turn red as they age.

A bit of a view from the wall out, you can see the bloody lobster pot string and maybe see that the topography at this point is 'saw tooth' even though the height change is less than one meter.

All turned and time to polish!

A group of Peacock fan worms (Sabella pavonina), these worms will 'snap' shut as soon as they sense water movement by the diver, so photographers take care.

The carriage was quite good once assembled and oiled with Tung oil......a more matt finish than Danish oil