Duo-Divers

Part of the engine assembly, in this case a con rod on the main shaft, not easy to get a sense of scale but it's B----I----G.

Bits of MV Yewglen wedged and jammed into the Little Rock

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

A view of the business end of an Angler-fish (Lophius piscatorious) there are loads about the sites and once you've spotted one they become easier to see.

Just off the starboard side near the bows on SS Thesis, you can see that the existing supporting structure is rapidly giving up the ghost.

There are 'odd' sections of phosphor bronze pipe dotted around the site, I have put a fishing weight on this one to give some sense of scale. I may be forced to attack it with a hammer and chisel in 2017!

I was trying to show how much sand had been scoured out of the iste, you can see here that there is a section of shale wall that's maybe fifty centimeters high where there was no weed hence it was covered prior to the last storms.

Lobsters (Hommarus gammarus) in a pot, I think that these will be put back as they are 'borderline'.

Another footballer work of some description.......

I think part of a mast, I did think prop shaft from a smaller vessel but winter storms revealed that at least one of the ends is sealed.

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!

Storm Emma or the Beast from the East, arguably the worst conditions I have witnessed at Beadnell, I was cut off for 3 days!

A shot down the length of the 'horizontal boiler'.

I had to add one shot of wreckage that could be identified, so you have the stern of SS Rondo which of course you recognised despite the dirty water!

And closer.......

A very large, well the largest that I have ever seen Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris), if hunting occies look for the eyes, they cannot change their 'slitted' eyes which look at you as an equal rather than some other sea creatures which appear not to have the intellegence of this species.

Typical geology, the surfaces are covered in Dead mans fingers (Alcyonium digitatum), the bottom being small vertical faces, rocks and large boulders....all very scenic and pretty in good vis!

On the West side of the site, towards the North end. It looks ideal for scallops but no sign of any or indeed empty predated shells.

A scaling shot of the thinnest section, this one doesnt seem as tapered as others and may be a spar rather than mast......

Bits of MV Yewglen wedged and jammed into the Little Rock

Starting near the stern, this is the top of the steering assembly and the guy here is thinking 'how do I get in?'

Another 'arty farty', sunbeams in shallow water!

Scenic stuff with light coming through the hull where the plates have gone and we are left with ribs and bits only

This one was probably killed by a dolphin, we get quite a few white sided dolphins in the area and despite the popular public conception about friendly dolphins they actively kill porpoises so you rarely if ever see dolphins and porpoise in close proximity