Duo-Divers

Scenic stuff with light coming through the hull where the plates have gone and we are left with ribs and bits only

Until you reach the bottom 'proper' in about 25m of water which is gravel and sand for ever....

A grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) the reason loads of divers visit the islands

A Painted goby (Pomatoschistus pictus) these are really common and will follow you around looking for any morsels that may be disturbed, but try and get one to stay still long enough to get a photograph.......

The front end of the helicopter, there are loads of 'things' to see, most of which have been stripped by divers!

Paddle boarders, didn't know that during this dive a paddle would be found

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

A Short Spined Sea-Scorpion (Myoxocephalus scorpius), a nice 'easy' fish to get nice photographs of, as you can probably tell if you go through all of the albums.

More divers on broken ground by the 'paved area', take care as the tide does push through piper gut at times!

The size of the scrap-field gives some indication of how large the vessel was but every year more of it is bashed, pulverised and washed away in winter storms....

More shots of the debris field, later in the year so a 'better' water colour!

This is the lair and just visible part of the Common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) that lives there, if you look in some of the 'squattie burrows' quite a few contain octopus that have eaten the original owner and set up shop!

A tiny Long Spined Sea Scorpion (Taurulus bubalis) this one was less than 10mm long!

How on earth this lobster (Hommarus gammarus) managed to get both claws through a single hole in the pot I have no idea!

Arty-farty shot of a pinnacle

Maybe not totally original but having bullied the crab I pushed my torch inside the barrel of this gun..............

The ships were built for speed, with plates rivetted together, the rivets will have been made from a softer material with less cobalt/manganese so have rotted away leaving rows of holes and allowing the paltes to start slipping.

Part of the wreck is covered in a large net, which hanging over the window looks quite nice.

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

The lower mounting position where the pin would fit, from a little distance away

I was trying to show how much sand had been scoured out of the iste, you can see here that there is a section of shale wall that's maybe fifty centimeters high where there was no weed hence it was covered prior to the last storms.

As you approach the debris field you will find little lengths of lead coated wiring sticking out of the sand or protruding from under stones.

A Common Whelk (Buccinum undatum) always a few to see on every dive. The knack is to get the photograph quickly before they start to withdraw into their shell.

Some of the armoured plates have been removed and the remaining ribs are quite photogenic

You can probably see from the general topography that the reef or should that be reefs run east west and as you get closer to the access point you will start seeing more bits of reef poking up, kinda pointing the way out!