Duo-Divers

Now I have been doing some research and perhaps these 'spotty' sea hare (Aplysia punctuate) are in-fact 'green' sea slugs (Elysia viridis) I have noted the word green as apparently they are coloured based on their food, pretty much like the sea hare but have characteristic small spots of iridescence. Maybe further investigation?

At the stern there is evidence of anchor chains

The Staple Sound side of the site is a wall smothered in Dead mans Fingers (Alcyonium digitatum) and is a great scenic dive!

The site is very,very tidal and as such smothered with Dead Mans Fingers and other species, some of which are not common on any other farnes site!

Compare and contrast a real cannon with the claimed cannon on the Hopper!

Cascabels, trunions and the taper of the barrel!

A Long Legged Spider Crab (Macropodia rostrata) there are loads on all or most sites, this is the most common 'camouflage'.

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

The propellor from SS Abessinia, due to the absence of a shaft was it lost 'mid-salvage' or was this the spare cast iron part?

The joys of a 'professional-hobbyist' (?) lathe is that you can carry out tweaks, in this case off-setting the blank so that I didn't need to set the lathe up to taper turn, rather the work-piece was off-set.

I dropped into one particular sump in the rock and it was crawling with Flounder (Platicthys flesus) I got one photograph but they were zooming around like irate flying saucers but never left the sump.

One of the spotting masts, I am assuming that there is a ladder inside for the crew to climb up to the exposed station located high above the deck

As is my wont a scenic shot of the bows.

Another arty shot of the stringy like Bootlace Weed (Chorda filum) that is found in lower inter-tidal water. Apparently quite tasty too!

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A - It started with a bit of wood on the beach to the North of Bamburgh

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

A bit of pipe, you can see the brazed joint along with a 50p piece for a bit of scale

A pair of Wolf-fish (Anarhichas lupus) in a hole, these were a couple of large fish with 'fist' size heads, when looking for these fish look for secure holes, I tend to concentrate in cracks and fissures in the bed-rock, rather than loose rocks and boulders.

The divers favourite a Tompot Blenny (Parablennius gattorugine) it's probably the 'mad hair-cut' that makes them popular.

Holes in the back of the fin, makes things much easy to put on and take off

Just a scenic showing the vis on this particular dive, it was around the 10m mark, probably a tad better.

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

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.

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