Uk Diving » Seasearch East in June » Dunwich Seasearch

Our first Seasearch Observer course of the year was held at Learn Scuba in Lowestoft. After the theory day we had the rare chance to dive on the remains of St Peter's off Dunwich - the sunken village. The visibility is very rarely good here but we were just able to catch enough for a worthwhile dive. As you can see from the pictures it was quite murky, after an enticing week of 5m+ we got a weekend of 1m dropping to nothing if you found yourself with a trainee Divemaster resting on top of you :-)

Rob rallies the troops. It looks like we're about to...	The remains of Dunwich, which were lost to the sea...	Hmmm. You can tell it's a tough dive when we start with a...	The remains of the stone walls were covered in Oaten Pipe...	Hydroids were the site's fashion statement. Here's a...
Velvet swimming crab - Necora puber	There were dense areas of small Plumose anemones -...	We saw a lot of Dahlia anemones - Urticina felina. They...	This Elegant anemone - Sargatia elegans - is in the...	A Deadmans finger - Alcyonium digitatum
A nice orange Elegant anemone - Sargatia elegans	Looks like this Common starfish -Asterias rubens - is sun...	Another Elegant anemone - Sargatia elegans	Nudibranch eggs amongst the hydroid stems	We didn't notice the Coryphella spp. nudibranch in this...
One more Elegant anemone - Sargatia elegans	A Mermaid's Purse, very hard to tell which type of shark...	After a while we got used to the undergrowth and noticed...	The heads of hydroids are often home to tiny Amphipods	We are having trouble deciding what this is, either a...
There were a few Edible crabs - Cancer pagarus	More amphipods on more Oaten pipes - Tubularia indivisa	Another Dendronotus frondosus - Christmas tree nudibranch...	A well camoflaged Macropodia spp. Spider crab	A beach in summer is a civilised place to fill in your...

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