Duo-Divers

The seal eventually lay on the bottom and wanted to have its photo taken.....again....

A brass RN sailors button, I would have thought that there would be a story behind this, was it from a dead body washed ashore during the wars?

Having extracted this common lobster (Hommarus gammarus) I found it was berried, grrrrh!

An egg cluster from Common Whelk (Buccinum undatum) a common find on the sea-shore, though this cluster was firmly attached.

A Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris), there are loads about this year (2016) you just have to get your eye in to spot 'em.

Ahhhhh a danforth anchor, all alone and loitering, probably just under a metric tonne here!

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

The rocks, which are a soft 'holey' shale are coated in a pretty pink coralline growth

You do need sharp eyes as frequently all that is visible, poking through tiny pockets of sand, are the stainless steel grip leads.

A Long Clawed Squat Lobster (Munida rugosa), this one was eating a still pulsing Lions Mane Jellyfish (Cyanea capillata)

Spot the seal!

Another partially cleaned brass breech block.......

A common hermit crab (Pagurus bernhardus), I just couldn't get it to stay still to get a shot of it's back end!

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!

and closer.....

This is the keel I reckon, only 'obvious' as the weeds have dropped away.

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!

A Tompot blenny (Parablennius gattorugine), this one was hiding in his hole and almost attached to my camera by a piece of string.....as the camera got close he retreated into his hole!

Another breech assembly, you can see where someone has cleaned the 'crud' from the brass section

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

A scenic of the bow, due to the previous salvage operation it has 'snapped' and fallen away from centre to left of the photograph

Doesn't look much but this is the tip of a propellor, a close up shot!

A Green shore crab (Carcinus maenas) this one was busy digging a hole, there must have been something down there.