Duo-Divers

Eat my camera set-up!!

And again from the 'inside' or maybe underneath. Now make sure you have a buddy if going under any tin-work to drag you out should there be a snagging event.

More non-ferrous from Mistley and this time some golf balls for good measure!

Sea Hare (aplysia punctata) you get loads and loads of them on the south side of the point feeding and breeding!

A small Common Hermit Crab (Pagurus bernhardus) in a discarded winkle shell, the bottom of the site is crawling with these critters, searching for food, squabbling with their brethern over shells and generally going about their daily business!

Ribs on the port side near the bow of SS Thesis, you can see from the 'raw metal' that this area has not had a chance to be colonised by sea-life since the last lot of hull plate fell away. Sad but considering it's age not surprising.

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!

The results of another successful dip on Mistley, more non-ferrous rubbish

Dead Mans Fingers (Alcyonium digitatum), a close up of the feeding 'polyps'?

A well known 'lair' and a well known Blue Fiend or Lobster (Homarus gammarus) I've had him out a couple of times and I guess he weighs in at about five pounds!

Not as common as in Southern waters or even around Howick but here is a Lesser Spotted Catshark, or should that be dogfish? (Scyliorhinus canicula) Years ago you rarely saw any but they are becoming more common, in 2018 a party of divers got photos of a large Tope out at the Farne Islands.....apex predators you have been warned!

These weeds 'reached for the surface' and with the small fish swimming about they were like trees and the fish like birds, pretty?

A Hermit Crab (Pagurus bernhardus) these are always good subjects and whilst they may 'nip' inside their shells when you approach it isn't long before the peep out again!

A Devonshire cup-coral (Caryophyllia smithii), there are loads of these multi-coloured critters on the wreckage

Inside the tunnel, you can see the permanent line at the ceiling and the relatively good vis, again there is no silt to stir up

Drop over to the 'hull side' of the vessel and it's still pretty messed around.

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!