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Until you reach the bottom 'proper' in about 25m of water which is gravel and sand for ever....
Some of the armoured plates have been removed and the remaining ribs are quite photogenic
Where the sandstone bedrock 'pokes through' the boulders it is worn into some fantastical shapes
This is a section of hull, you can kinda see that the inside of the hull is on the bottom and comprises of a mesh of flat wooden sections, the actual hull is face up and looks like what it is....flat steel
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
A large lobster (Homarus gammarus) in between two plates, these only come out at night!
This Pink (or Northern) Prawn (Pandalus montagui) was being actively stalked by a Common Lobster (Homarus Gammarus), you can see the lobbies claws!
This is the rounded section of stern and you can see how it's all falling apart as age causes a general degradation of the thinner steel used on these vessels, I don't think that there will be much left of the smaller vessels on the bicentennary of WW1
I dropped into one particular sump in the rock and it was crawling with Flounder (Platicthys flesus) I got one photograph but they were zooming around like irate flying saucers but never left the sump.
The pile of anchor chain, this has obviously just dropped straight out of the locker and forms a big two meter square lump in a gully
But get near the engine room and it is all a bit of a buggers muddle of blasted bits
This section of deck has been thrown to the shore end of the main gully and is quite photogenic as it stands proud of the sea-bed so options for photos, just make sure that the sun is in the right place!
Wrecky bits against the reef- face
The velvet swimming crab (necora puber), there are always some about and 'prod' one and it will swim away.....honest!
More non-ferrous from Mistley and this time some golf balls for good measure!
A common or garden Plaice (Pleuronectes platessa), get to the gritty sand and you will se a few of these tasty fish, if you are so inclined you could bag for your tea.
Maybe not totally original but having bullied the crab I pushed my torch inside the barrel of this gun..............
Is it a Lesser Spotted Dogfigh.......or a Small-spotted Cat-shark? At least the scientists agree that it is Scyliorhinus canicula
A nice size brass valve, fresh water inlet, from Mistley. I'm not sure if metric pipework systems were used when she was built but the valve had a 35 cast into it.
A Shanny (Lipophrys phalis) this one was living in an old hole and would 'hang out' when it realised that you didn't want to eat it!
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