Duo-Divers

Not a great photograph but this little critter is a Fifteen Spined Stickleback (Spinachia spinachia) it's really camouflaged and only became apparent when it made a dash for some kelp! A small fish maybe 10cm long I am sure that they are more common than they first appear!

A view into the propellor shaft, simply taking a bearing along the shaft and follow over the sand and you will reach the other part of the wreck

I just dropped outside of the hull at this point as I was 'bored', hopefully some sense of scale for both vis and wreck size

A grey seal pup (Halichoerus grypus) on a rock almost saying come closer........

A rather large Sea-Squirt

A valve identification plate, interestingly this one has raised lettering rather than details stamped in. This means that it must have been cast, a rather strange and expensive way to make simple ID plates!

After the propellor the next 'lump' is a set of bollards

If you want to head into the wreck this is one of the access points!

A shot showing four rods coming out from the sand clos to the propellor tip, so probably part of the engine mounting arrangement.

Some sort of winching arrangement, this is a large section of wreckage within a short distance of the boilers

This site is home to a multitude of Common Hermit Crabs (pagurus bernhardus) and they do seem to be involved in a never ending squabble or 'pagger', the behaviour possibly derived from its latin name?

Arty-farty shot of a Velvet Swimming Crab (Necora puber)

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

Dropping to the bottom about eighty meters from the cliff face and you are faced with a bottom comprising of boulders with coarse sand between them, the boulders vary in size from the size of cars to maybe a meter cubed.

I have never seen this particular species of Starfish (Echioderm) here in the North East although they are common in warm water further south or on the West Coast. Apparently this species is quite ancient.....

A Devonshire cup-coral (Caryophyllia smithii), there are loads of these multi-coloured critters on the wreckage

Engine parts sticking out of the sand, I assume these held on the cylinders........

Knacker Hole contains loads of blue fineds, that is to say Common Lobsters (Homarus gammarus) it really is a case of picking a hole and waiting until the monster emerges!