Duo-Divers

Not really sure what this chain drive will have been uised for, it's in the area of the engine room....possibly part of the ships telegraph arranegment?

A Butterfish or Rock Gunnel (Pholis gunnellus) quite common but pretty nonetheless!

A bit of scrap for you rust heads out there, you will also find a wreckage field from the Mistley.

The cock-pit, you can see that all removeable bits have gone, that's the good old UK diver for you!

Another shot of the anchor, on this you can see the shaft and that the eye has rusted off, it can be seen just next to the end of the shaft

Horse Mussel (Modiolus modiolus) these large mussels tend to be solitary rather than in huge beds and taste ghastly so don't bother chopping them out from their homes embedded in the sea-bed.

Kelp (Family laminariales) does tend to be quite a long lived plant with the stem above say the first twenty centimeters quite a safe place for a plant to grow without the risk of sea-urchins 'browsing' you away. In this case dulse and other sea-weed encases the stem, making an eco-system up in the water column!

A King....or Common....or Great Scallop (Pecten maximus), they were even sitting on hard rock!

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!

This is the bottom pivot point of the portside rudder which is in remarkable condition considering that the prop shaft was blown through with explosives maybe two yards away.

A pile of coins! From a modern 20p piece to some very old stuff it collects and stays there until such a time as the sand is moved by a storm

A scenic of one of the masts, snapped where it goes over some other wreckage, going away from the body of the wreck

A large Whelk (Buccinum undatum) you see lots of them and if you want to eat them then put in a baited trap.

A square 'chute' standing upright, pre-2019 this was flat so the storms have obvioulsy shifted about. I could have done with being lower to take a 'thru-photo' and a subject at the other side would have been good.

To take a few close ups, he got a bit bored and then decided that it would be a 'good thing'.....

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.

The capstan on the fore-deck...again!

A 'fresh' Greenland Shark (Somniosus microcephalus) that was washed up at Embleton. Great was my joy at being able to tell the guys at St Andrews University that this specimen had washed up and it was sweetened by adding that we had already toild Newcastle University of the stranding