Duo-Divers

A compressed air tank, as used to blow ballast from the tanks and enable the submarine to surface. There are loads of these dotted around the site, they are not torpedos, lost dive cylinders or similar and to date I haven't managed to find any with the brass valves in place.

An oyster clamped down on the pier. there were quite a few on the pier but I didn't spot any on rocks under the water.......

Another 'arty-farty' showing an empty lobster pot standing on end....

The point where the gun meets the turret

A Tompot blenny (Parablennius gattorugine), this one was sitting out in the open.

Knacker Hole contains loads of blue fineds, that is to say Common Lobsters (Homarus gammarus) this one was having a bimble about looking for a meal

Some of the armoured plates have been removed and the remaining ribs are quite photogenic

These weeds 'reached for the surface' and with the small fish swimming about they were like trees and the fish like birds, pretty?

More bits in the jumble of machinery

A large lobster (Homarus gammarus) in between two plates, these only come out at night!

Plates and spars towards the stern of the wreck

Move away from the face and you reach a jumble of boulders, some with dead-mans fingers

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.

After throwing yourself in you can look back up the rock-face......nice

Arty-farty alert!

A shot looking up the wall of the Point in about 9m of water, the kelp which lives on the vertical face is obvious, the barnacle band not so.

A windlass, bow gear, hanging on the deck at ninety degrees to where it should be, if the wreck is on it's side it can be so disconcerting with good vis!

Not as common as in Southern waters or even around Howick but here is a Lesser Spotted Catshark, or should that be dogfish? (Scyliorhinus canicula) Years ago you rarely saw any but they are becoming more common, in 2018 a party of divers got photos of a large Tope out at the Farne Islands.....apex predators you have been warned!

Most of the time you are dropped in and see this, a forest of kelp (Order Laminariales)