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A side view of the 'vertical' boiler, the boilers were well made and still intact, unlike those of SS Coryton at Ross Sands where you can swim inside to get nice atmospheric shots
Plates and spars towards the stern of the wreck
Arty-farty alert....again!
A King....or Common....or Great Scallop (Pecten maximus) this one was just about to 'jet off'.
Sea-squirts and rock boring sponge, so different from North East species!
At the stern there is evidence of anchor chains
A typical north east wreck scene, plates n bits on a hard bottom
A large edible crab (Cancer pagurus) in among the dead-mans fingers.
Drop in from Black Rock, swim North and the bottom starts off as fist size cobbles with occasional large boulders which are swathed in kelp.
Common octopus (Octopus vulgaris), he wasn't happy with a diver so not a lot of chance to get photographs.
A general 'look' at the topography, in this case shallow troughs and loads of kelp
A grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) the reason loads of divers visit the islands
An Edible Crab (Cancer pagurus), there a few of these critters about but most if not all are of a size that would mean little or no meat, that said technically they would be legal...
The northern, vertical rock face is smothered in hydroids, sea-squirts and boring corals but no dead mans fingers, it's still nice and pretty in bright conditions
A pair of Wolf-fish (Anarhichas lupus) in a hole, these were a couple of large fish with 'fist' size heads, when looking for these fish look for secure holes, I tend to concentrate in cracks and fissures in the bed-rock, rather than loose rocks and boulders.
Common Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis), probably why a lot of 'non-locals' dive Babbacombe, I was a touch late this year.
A view of the sections of masts if you are heading towards the Hopper, they are in a section of sand filled gully at the base of the rock face
A small shellfish, probably some type of oyster. I took this photograph as I have never seen one before and thought it may be a 'foreign invader', it isn't!
You can probably see from the general topography that the reef or should that be reefs run east west and as you get closer to the access point you will start seeing more bits of reef poking up, kinda pointing the way out!
And when you reach the 'bootlace' seaweed you know that the exit point is near, if in doubt stick your head up, the depth will be down to between one and two meters now depending on the tide.
Debris all around and most unidentifiable, in this case it's a part of a mast or kingpost arrangement, I think!
This is the top of the sternpost
Looking back towards the Carnatic from the bowsprit, Abu Nuhas Reef
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