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Having extracted this common lobster (Hommarus gammarus) I found it was berried, grrrrh!
Some sort of winching arrangement, this is a large section of wreckage within a short distance of the boilers
A 'scaling shot' of the largest diameter section, you can only see the top of this pieces poking out from the sand
When you head 'off-piste' away from the main body there are still large lumps of wreckage
A very scenic dip with dead mans fingers (Alcyonium digitatum) covering hard rock with boulders in some of the larger gullies.
Once you get down to ~25m the bottom is covered with mats of Common Brittlestars (Opthiothrix fragilis) and possibly other species, but unless starfish really float your boat would you bother spending time to identify them?
You will certainly get a few chances for 'davit' shots on the wreck!
You can see that the 'wall' is more a stepped solid stone reef, smothered in life.
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.
The barrels just 'go off' into the gloom, wow!
The wooden floor is disappearing over time, allowing more light to penetrate the wreck which is a double edged sword, do you want to do real penetration diving into 35m+ on a single?
Girders and struts from I am assuming the top structure of MV Yewglen
There are more and more dahlia anemone (Urticina felina) appearing on the site, I do worry that a hard winter storm will dislodge and kill most of them but hey!
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