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You will also see loads of starfish, this is a sunstar (Crossaster poppasus) and these can be many shades of red-purple depending on what they have been eating.
Broken bottom and divers!!
Drop over to the 'hull side' of the vessel and it's still pretty messed around.
Another bit of a small windlass arrangement, or alternatively as it is in a certain location part of the lifting tackle that was mounted on the masts and superstructure of the vessel?
The entry to the tunnel, it's straight with no real hazards but when you go in you cant see the end so not for the faint hearted!
The bows of SS Breda, or at least the very front of the cut down bow section after she was wire cut to 28ft.
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.
First containment done.......
The top of the Point is battered with wave and tide which makes it attractive for filter feeders such as barnacles which are securely anchored but weeds, well it is difficult but there are plenty of the 'bootlace' weeds which I guess are ideally shaped to apply minimal forces to the roots.
A Tompot blenny (Parablennius gattorugine), this one was hiding in his hole and almost attached to my camera by a piece of string.....as the camera got close he retreated into his hole!
A lions Mane Jellyfish (Cyanea capillata) moving past with the prevailing tide, the long stingers on these beggars can be 3m long and be left on shot ropes sooooo, dont approach them without caustion and wear gloves!
The carriage was quite good once assembled and oiled with Tung oil......a more matt finish than Danish oil
A Devonshire cup-coral (Caryophyllia smithii), there are loads of these multi-coloured critters on the wreckage
And again from the 'inside' or maybe underneath. Now make sure you have a buddy if going under any tin-work to drag you out should there be a snagging event.
A Tompot blenny (Parablennius gattorugine), this one was sitting out in the open.
A crushed brass bell! An ornament? It looks too small to be fitted to a door so I really have no idea but again interesting.
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.
Somewhere in the welter of bubbles is a diver, getting into the water is easy, waddle from your car over the flat concrete and kinda 'fall in'
More wrecky bits against the reef face
Is it a Lesser Spotted Dogfigh.......or a Small-spotted Cat-shark? At least the scientists agree that it is Scyliorhinus canicula
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