UK Diving » SwanageOct08 » The Fleur

We had time for a dive on the day we arrived - The Fleur de Lys, a small wooden boat sunk only a few years ago but already barely holding together. Not much more than a shell now but covered in and surrounded by wildlife, making for a very good dive. http://www.divesitedirectory.co.uk/dive_site_uk_england_south_coast_reefs_swanage_bay.html

Like nearly all wrecks there was a good shoal of Bib -...	Bib - Trisopterus luscus - have a deepish body, lower jaw...	Not much to look at? The grey stuff is a colonial sea...	More Diplosoma spongiforme - so called because it looks...	There were a couple of Tompot Blennies - Parablennius...
The Tompot's 'antlers' are called lappets	Looking a bit like leaves this is Hornwrack - Flustra...	Another colony of sea squirts - could be Diplosoma...	Red algae - as with almost all algae there's not much ID...	A selection of sponge - Crater - Hemimycale columella,...
Sand Gobies are tiny	Sand Gobies - Pomatoschistus minutus -are small and often...	Pumice Bryozoan - Cellepora pumicosa	Painted Topshell - Calliostoma zizyphinum	More Hornwrack - Flustra foliacea
Purse sponges - Scypha ciliata	These little yellow 'mushrooms' are the pore sieves of a...	This orange splodge is a colonial sea squirt, you can see...	A nosey Corkwing Wrasse - Crenilarus melops	A chimney sponge - Polymastia penicillus - no prizes for...

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