Duo-Divers

There are more and more dahlia anemone (Urticina felina) appearing on the site, I do worry that a hard winter storm will dislodge and kill most of them but hey!

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

By late summer you can't see the individual pipes on the boiler and it appears as a big dulse covered 'lump' but there is a boiler under there, honest!

A Lobster (Hamarus gammarus) this is a Blue Fiends view of a diver, I got my buddy to keep its attention and snook around to get this photo, he was off in a shot when the flash fired!

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!

A view over the broken 'bottom' with a random diver. At times the site does resemble diver soup usually when prevailing conditions are poor limiting access to other areas or when the seals are in residence.

These are the outer cases built by a Sand Mason (Lanice conchilega) which filter 'bits' from the water. On occasion you can see them high and dry when there is an exceptionally low spring tide.

The harbout outer wall, submitted for a competition, who knows?

Once you get down to ~25m the bottom is covered with mats of Common Brittlestars (Opthiothrix fragilis) and possibly other species, but unless starfish really float your boat would you bother spending time to identify them?

L - And this is how it ended up, picked up on 1st March 2018 and finished a year later 

King scallop (Pecten maximus) not a huge amount of 'live ones' here but loads of shells from where they are gutted by divers. Those present seem to have been 'thrown back' by divers who realise that they were undersized!

Still at the stern section, exterior plate with holes, any brass has long, long gone