Duo-Divers

Dead Mans Fingers (Alcyonium digitatum), a bit of back-lite with the strobe set-up

In the shale bedrock you will also occasionally see some very nice fossils, in this case some prehistoric bi-valve

Move away from the face and you reach a jumble of boulders, some with dead-mans fingers

These weeds 'reached for the surface' and with the small fish swimming about they were like trees and the fish like birds, this time with the pier steps shown going into the water.

The underside of SS Rondo is covered with Peacock Worms Sabella pavonina) get too close and they 'snap' closed so approach very....very....very slowly and start snapping when you are in range and still moving forward.

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!

I just dropped outside of the hull at this point as I was 'bored', hopefully some sense of scale for both vis and wreck size

I messed around with the images as the three larger holes do have a look of 'The Scream' by Munch, what do you think?

A Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris), there are loads about this year (2016) you just have to get your eye in to spot 'em.

Don't try this at home kids!!!

After the 'engine bits' there is an area where it's like a giant meccano kit, protruding maybe 4ft out of the sand.

Toby and Lucy starting to surface, it was 'odd' to do a three minute safety stop.......

Not all rust, here is a Dragonet (Callionymus lyra)

Various small fish hovering about near the broken up sea-weed

Kelp (Family laminariales) does tend to be quite a long lived plant with the stem above say the first twenty centimeters quite a safe place for a plant to grow without the risk of sea-urchins 'browsing' you away. In this case dulse and other sea-weed encases the stem, making an eco-system up in the water column!

Bits of MV Yewglen wedged and jammed into the Little Rock

Under the rocks here is a large steel flange, possibly part of the conning tower arrangement as it is too small to form part of the hull structure.

Scenic stuff with light coming through the hull where the plates have gone and we are left with ribs and bits only

A Lions Mane Jellyfish (Cyanea capillata), when they are about deco stops are always interesting!

Not really sure what this chain drive will have been uised for, it's in the area of the engine room....possibly part of the ships telegraph arranegment?

A Long Clawed Squat Lobster (Munida rugosa) I tried to get something a bit different for this shot, not sure if it worked.