Reviews
Hydrotac stick on bi-focal lens
Age will weary and mean changes to gear configuration.........the first being a loss of close up vision!
Santi BZ400X 'Extreme' thermal undersuit
I must be getting soft in my old age....five years ago no hood or gloves at any time of the year, then I started with a hood, then gloves, then dry gloves and now this a new undersuit as the 4th Element kit doesn't seem to be 'cutting it' in the winter!
Otter Britannic Superskin Drysuit
What with one thing and another I am looking at changing from a neoprene to membrane drysuit, I am hoping that a more pliable suit makes manouvering with my 'aging' back a tad easier, so where to go? After some investigation and talking with other divers it was time for a trip to Bradford!
Air-Lift for budding treasure hunters
A bit of an odd-ball...........I guess that this is more a review of instructions more than the air-lift that I made.
Kubi dry glove system
I do feel that having been diving for more than 30 years I am due some luxuries in my dotage to make leaping, or should that be rolling, into the cold North Sea slightly more pleasurable.
3D Mesh Vest by Waterproof
Another item of thermal wear for dry-suit users but how does it compare to gear already on the market?
Big Blue AL1000XWP dual set up for Go-Pro
With the popularity of the go-pro set-up it was inevitable that 'specialist' set ups have been developed, but how well has this one been developed?
- Fins, tekkie or sport, standard or modded?
- Seabear H3 Dive Computer (Smart Watch)
- Halcyon 'H' Titanium Knife
- Lumb Brothers 'Crab Hook'
- Sea & Sea YS-01 Strobe
- Ikelite DS51 TTL Strobe
- To wax or not to wax?
- Miflex Hoses
- Hollis 38LX wing and solo technical harness
- Oceanic GT-3 regulator plus FDX-10 1st stage
- Oceanic EOS regulator plus FDX-10 1st stage
- Highland EMT Shears
- Northern Divers Weight and Trim Harness
- Beaver Tech Weight Harness
- 'J Nowill' SBS Titanium Dive Knife
- Halcyon Gaiter Wraps
- Halcyon Exploration Pocket
- Sovereign Diving (Seahouses)
- AP Diving Open Circuit Bailout Mouthpiece
- Waterfront Scuba Servicing Facility
- Waterproof G1 3mm 5 Finger Gloves
- Greenforce F2 Umbilical Torch
- Narked at 90 fourth cell conversion
- Hollis LED 3 Torch
- Atomic Aquatics SS1 Auto-air
- Beaver Aquasnips
- Jotron AQ 4 Strobe
- Shearwater Predator Dive Computer
- AP Diving Oxygen Sensor (R22D)
- Metalsub XRE1000 torch
- Eezycut Trilobite Cutter
- VR3 Dive Computer
- VRX Dive Computer
- Scubapro Seawing Nova
- The Dive Pod (Nuttys Dive Centre)
- Dive-rite Travel Pac
- Atomic Aquatics Frameless mask
- Seaskin suit repair and rock-boots
- Halcyon Pathfinder 400 Reel
- Re-visited Archon D33 torch
- AP Diving: Black Self Sealing SMB with DIN cylinder
- O three Ri 1-100CCN Dry-suit
- Archon D33 torch
- Bigblue Focusing-Spotting Light
- O three heated under vest
Latest Photographs


Compare and contrast a real cannon with the claimed cannon on the Hopper!
Cascabels, trunions and the taper of the barrel!
Plates and spars towards the stern of the wreck, this time with a diver in the background
The entry to the tunnel, it's straight with no real hazards but when you go in you cant see the end so not for the faint hearted!
Lots of scallops (Pecten maximus) if you know what to look for!
The rock formations are formed so that the 'vertical cliff' faces the shore and the slopes lead away to the east. You can see that the faces are quite fractured and home to loads of different life, some edible some not so
As is my wont a scenic shot of the bows.
A Lions Mane Jellyfish (Cyanea capillata), when they are about deco stops are always interesting!
Again the wreckage from the port side, there are more planks than you would think as I am sure that the wreck would have been heavily salvaged by locals!
A B/W shot of the boiler from the North of it
Bits of MV Yewglen wedged and jammed into the Little Rock
This valve had been wedged under the boiler at Beadnell Point for a long time.....
Flat bits of plate, be that deck or hull are all over the site, I think they are deck as they are flat with very little in the way of thick metal ribs, but I do get things wrong.
As I was diving in a Sea Loch it isn't a surprise that I saw quite a few Sea-Loch Anemones (Macropodia rostrata).
This section is the only bit commonly found south of the boilers, you might find some bits of bow but its a swim and they may be covered in sand
A 'random wreckage' shot, you can see the rope and shattered pot, so go steady on these dives as there are trapping hazards about.
Feedin' the wrasse!!
In this case Ballan Wrasse (Labrus bergylta) on a smashed edible sea urchin (Echinus esculentus), don't try this at home kids.
Football sea squirts (Diazona violacea), again lots of these very simple animals inhabit the outside of the hull of SS Rondo.
A very large, well the largest that I have ever seen Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris), she was sitting on-top of a rock pretending to be weed but had the 'wrong' colouration, the skin texture was right though!
A view of the bottom plus another piece of large debris, again WTF?
This sponge, sometimes known as Goose Bump sponge (Dysidea fragilis) are are over the site, you can see them on the general topography photograph in this album
In the actual 'submarine hole' it is an absolute mishmash of bits concreted onto the bottom, in this case a heavy gauge cable has been concreted onton steel and rock
Everywhere that you look the bottom isn't bedrock, it is formed from sections of ship.
Common edible and tasty lobster (homarus gammarus) the area is home to a multitude of them!