Duo-Divers

More dulse covered iron-work, this time a Ballan Wrasse is heading off at a rate of knots!

That 'light-bulb' moment, this is the slightly bent bit that made me think 'keel' it doesn't move and has that 'look' about it. I will need to clout and see if it is solid or a 'U' section with wood inside.

Side shot all done and pre-mounting.

A dead female lumpsucker, found at Saltburn but common enough around the coast

The deeper gullies have a thick layer of grit and sand on the bottom, possibly concealing 'goodies'

A tosheroon, not especially full but always good to find a few weights together!

A Long Legged Spider Crab (Macropodia rostrata) there are loads on all or most sites, this is the most common 'camouflage'.

and closer.....

Again the spindle to reel shaft was a chew and again I resorted to soldering in place, looks ok and seems quite 'tight'

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.

This can only be a section of keel as it is thick, wide steel that would have had no place on the upper part of the vessel

The carriage was to be made from 'period oak'

Something for a sense of scale, I hope!

A common Hermit crab (Pagurus bernhardus), this one seemed to have a load of eggs around the outer edge of the shell

There are more and more Bull Huss (Scyliorhinus stellaris) in the area and this one was relatively lively and wouldn't let me get close for a photograph.

Christophe Badesco, a monster of the deep

This section is the only bit commonly found south of the boilers, you might find some bits of bow but its a swim and they may be covered in sand

Flat bits of plate, be that deck or hull are all over the site, I think they are deck as they are flat with very little in the way of thick metal ribs, but I do get things wrong.

On this particular site on this day there were loads of smallish Edible Crabs (Cancer pagurus) quite an unusual sight as they don't normally show in shallow water.