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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!
The ships were built for speed, with plates rivetted together, the rivets will have been made from a softer material with less cobalt/manganese so have rotted away leaving rows of holes and allowing the paltes to start slipping.
One of the observation slits on the conning tower, like 'Knights visors' these were designed to minimise the chance of shrapnel and metal splinters being blasted into the tower
Well on the way but too shiny for my liking.
The cobbled bottom stops 'abruptly' and there is a section of coarse sand, don't worry it is maybe fifteen meters before you get back to rock so it's highly unlikely that you will be swimming in circles forever!
Gas works!
A silver half crown and another later cupronickel alloy 'silver' coin, possibly a florin?
A large Whelk (Buccinum undatum) you see lots of them and if you want to eat them then put in a baited trap.
Bloody plastic waste, arrrrrrgh!
Until you reach the bottom 'proper' in about 25m of water which is gravel and sand for ever....
The wheels? Well oak obviously but I set in a rim of lead sheet recovered from the sea of course!
A rather bedraggled Sqaut Lobster (Galathea squamifera) sitting within a Dead-mans finger (Alcyonium digitatum) this one had no claws hence it had lost it's hole and was hiding away in a filter feeder, judging by it's general appearance and barnacle covered carapice I would think, not long of this world.
Spot the seal!
If you look down into the heavily salvaged engine space you can see the prop shaft, the hole down is about 20m to the inverted deck, quite a drop.....
As I was diving in a Sea Loch it isn't a surprise that I saw quite a few Sea-Loch Anemones (Macropodia rostrata).
This is the never ending cycle, well it does end when there is no metal left, it rusts and the rust then gets washed off and the new metal rusts and.... well you get the picture
Again the spindle to reel shaft was a chew and again I resorted to soldering in place, looks ok and seems quite 'tight'
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!
An arty fary half and half shot
A bored Hud doing deco
Looking up the sheer 'south' side of the wall, smothered in filter feeders and with plenty of fish in residence.
A moon Jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) another common species that doesn't sting so you can get up close and personal without being concerned about needing your buddy to pee on the stings!
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