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Place name : Wreck of the Alastor, Ringhaddy Sound, Strangford Lough. County : Down

Date : 2025-12-28 GPS : 54.45155,-5.62943. Depth : -10.0 to -22.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description : Wreck of M.Y. Alastor sitting in Ringhaddy Sound on mixed sediment seabed of soft mud, abundant dead shell and occasional cobbles and boulders.

Harbour crab, Polybius depurator, [00:01:06]; Blood Henry starfish, Henricia oculata, [00:01:16]; Queen scallop, Aequipecten opercularis, [00:01:33]; Shore crab, Carcinus maenas, [00:02:58]; Common starfish, Asterias rubens, [00:03:08]; Barnacle-eating nudibranchs, Onchidoris bilamellata & spawn, [00:03:14]; Featherstar, Antedon bifida, [00:04:52]; Elegant anemone, Cylista elegans, [00:05:19]; Soft coral, Dead man's fingers, Aclyonium digitatum, [00:05:26]; Horseman anemone, Urticina eques, [00:05:53]; Goosebump sponge, Dysidea fragilis, [00:07:00]; Elegant anemone, Cylista elegans, [00:07:07]; Nudibranch, Archidoris pseudoargus, [00:08:49]; Nudibranch, Archidoris pseudoargus, [00:09:16]

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