Bell Rock Lighthouse

Bell Rock Lighthouse is the world's oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse and was built on the Bell Rock (Inchcape) in the North Sea, 12 miles off the coast of Arbroath, east of the Firth of Tay. Designed by Robert Stevenson and built from 1807. It has apparently not been replaced or adapted since then. 200 years!!

The Bell Rock itself is a shallow reef and many boats have been wrecked there. Due to the surrounding shallow depth all the wrecks get almost completely broken up and the sea bed is littered with bits of wrecked ships. We'd just dived the wreck of the HMS Argyll (WW1 battle cruiser wrecked in 1915).

For the picture we'd just surfaced after the dive and were waiting for the boat to come pick us up.