Duo-Divers

Plates and spars towards the stern of the wreck, this time with a diver in the background

A Northern Prawn (Padalus borealis) sitting on a Dead-mans finger (Alcyonium digitatum), when you slow down and l-o-o-k there are loads of these prawns all over the sites.

When there is a bit of a tide running and some plankton in the water the tentacles on the Edible Sea Urchin (Echinus esculentus) do seem to extend a long, long way as they pick up food.

A couple of female Ballan Wrasse (Labrus bergylta) I think that they are in nesting mode, certainly the males are bright and flighty!

Common edible and tasty lobster (homarus gammarus) the area is home to a multitude of them!

A Dhalia anemone (Urticina felina) there are loads on the site but most are in the cracks and fissures

Holes in the front of the fin, makes things much easy to put on and take off as the water isn't hydraulic'd and can squirt out when you put the fun in and enter when you are taking them off.

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 observation slits on the conning tower, like 'Knights visors' these were designed to minimise the chance of shrapnel and metal splinters being blasted into the tower

Lost fishing line, sometimes obvious, other times not so. Always take some cutting gear and never try to snap braid using fingers or hands!

Not sure what these sections are or did but there are several on the site so unless they form an integral part of a gun carriage we can say that the pipes are not cannon

It was at about this stage that machining the trunions entered the 'too hard box', the blank was machined flat and I decided to push fit and solder in brass rod.

This was a bloody funny shaped fishing weight, quite heavy too, so I took a photo!

Dropping into the main gully one of the first things that you notice is the rust stained sand and then larger pieces of wreckage start to appear.

I had to add one shot of wreckage that could be identified, so you have the stern of SS Rondo which of course you recognised despite the dirty water!

A butterfish (Pholis gunnellus), these colourful critters live from rockpools to depth, just stop and look, you'll see them

'Who is that hiding under there?'

The wheels? Well oak obviously but I set in a rim of lead sheet recovered from the sea of course!

The Sea hare (Aplysia punctata) a common enough critter around the uk coastline but we tend to get explosions of them every couple of years.

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