Duo-Divers

Mid-way along the site is an area of angular boulders which go further up the wall (?) they appear new, with very little life attached' but have been there over 30 years. Look carefully and you will find crustaceans among the jumble.

The bows of SS Breda, or at least the very front of the cut down bow section after she was wire cut to 28ft.

Not a good shot but one of the rebreather chaps next to the rudders, these stand about 6m proud of the bottom of the vessel and are intact despite the explosive forces used to remove the phosphor bronze propellors which were located very, very close.

And the business end of the same gun, in this case a crab has set-up shop but most of the time they are home to conger eels!

Starboard side and the wreck is slowly disappearing on a flooding tide...

The propellor from SS Abessinia, due to the absence of a shaft was it lost 'mid-salvage' or was this the spare cast iron part?

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

As is my wont a scenic shot of the bows.

A Hermit Crab (Pagurus bernhardus) had set up shop in an old whelk shell, te problem was that it was far to small and spent most of the time looking out of a hole half way down the shell!

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

A pretty little light, one of the guys thought 'deck light' but with a solid back and close to another two broken lights I would think a bulkhead light of some description, date late victorian to pre WWI.

This is a shot from the back showing that there is no path for the sunlight above the deck, it is blanked off

A Lobster (Hamarus gammarus) this is a Blue Fiends view of a diver, I got my buddy to keep its attention and snook around to get this photo, he was off in a shot when the flash fired!

A box full of non-ferrous bits, probably about 2kg of bits destined for a wooden box full of similar bits and pieces that I have in the shed.

Not the greatest but a Sea Comb, probably a Sea Gooseberry (Pleurobrachia plies) or at least that is what I have always called em when anyone asks! I like watching the little bits down the side change colour as they move, a very interesting little critter, I should take a bit of matt black plastic to try and get a photograph of one that is clearer.

Part of a shoal of lesser sandeels (Ammodytes tobianus) there are huge bait balls of this foodstuff through the summer, some of which are attacked from above and below. These fish were quite happy to stay relatively close, they obviously didn't see a diver as a threat.

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

An 'A' frame located adjacent to the stern of SS Mistley, not surprising bearing in mind that she was a steam trawler.

A very scenic dip with dead mans fingers (Alcyonium digitatum) covering hard rock with boulders in some of the larger gullies.