SUSAC-Easter-2011

SUSAC novices' trip to South Devon

North Hallsands Lovely site for your first open water dive. Steep shingle beach though...	Thurlestone Second day of open water training. This gives the correct impression of the carpark height above sea level!	Plymouth Breakwater View from Fort Bovisand, where we were based at Discovery Divers for the second half of the week	Plymouth Sound View from Bovi harbour	Plymouth Breakwater View from Bovi harbour. More hills - bit of a shock for someone based in East Anglia.
Devon traffic Head-to-head on a narrow Devon lane...	RIB recovery Plenty of willing (?!) helpers at Mount Batten	Kelp forest Kelp and epiphytic algae. Yes, this really is the UK in April!	Red algae Sea beech (Delessaria sanguinea)	Spider crab Big spider crab (Maja squinado), does whatever a spider crab does...
Kelp coverage Encrusting bryozoan - sea mat or Membranipora membranacea (smooth edge unlike Electra pilosa) - Polycera quadrilineata food!	Inside the Scylla A copse of plumose anemones (Metridium senile)	Eunicella verrucosa My first pink sea fan!	James Eagan Layne Much thicker covering of life here, reflecting the 60+ years since it sank (March 1945)...	Fort Bovisand View from Plymouth Sound, returning to base at speed...