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Looking up at the side of the wreck you can see that plates, in this case' have fallen away or in some instances blasted to get at more valuable metal within enclosed spaces.
On one particular stone there were loads of Candy striped flatworms (Prostheceraeus vittatus), not sure why as adjacent areas were devoid.
More shots of the debris field, later in the year so a 'better' water colour!
Haraaaaaaaaaald! More scrap.
These weeds 'reached for the surface' and with the small fish swimming about they were like trees and the fish like birds, pretty?
Move a short distance from the wreck and the bottom is coated with brittle stars with arms 'waving' in the gentle current hoping to catch dinner.
Not quite New Year but into a clarty site for a lobster
As you get closer to the cliff then there is more sandstone bedrock and the doleritic limestone boulders get smaller.....there are also more edible sea-urchins, not that you would!
A typical north east wreck dive, plates, boilers n bits. In this case probably Jan Van Ryswyck although a few vessels have foundered so the bits are somehwhat mixed!
More dulse covered iron-work, this time a Ballan Wrasse is heading off at a rate of knots!
Just a scenic showing the vis on this particular dive, it was around the 10m mark, probably a tad better.
In the centre of the top deck as you swim back towards the funnels there are only the occasional uprights left, not sure how long before everything starts buckling.
Some sort of dead-eye or similar, this just sits in the middle of one of the gullies
Another topographical shot, stacked, shelfed rock going into a small gully.
A shot of the sea-bed in about twenty five meters off the Harcarrs, its all flat rock, small gravel beds and short drop offs.
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.
A 'fresh' Greenland Shark (Somniosus microcephalus) that was washed up at Embleton. Great was my joy at being able to tell the guys at St Andrews University that this specimen had washed up and it was sweetened by adding that we had already toild Newcastle University of the stranding
A smallish edible crab or Cancer pagurus, these seem to be more common on shallow shore dives.
I have never seen this particular species of Starfish (Echioderm) here in the North East although they are common in warm water further south or on the West Coast. Apparently this species is quite ancient.....
George Jacob run by the Marine Quest at Eyemouth
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.
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