Pecio Rosalie Möller
A 108 m collier launched in Glasgow in 1910 as the Francis. In October 1941 she lay at anchor in the Strait of Gubal, just as the Thistlegorm did, waiting for the entrance to the Suez Canal to clear. Two nights after that ship went down, in the early hours of 8 October 1941, a formation of Heinkel He 111s found her and two bombs burst in hold 4. She sank with the loss of two lives. Today she rests upright and almost intact on a bottom of sand and mud: the masthead reaches to about 17 m, the stern to 35, the bow to 39 and the seabed to 50.
Depth
17–50 m
Recommended level
Advanced / technical
Current
Rarely strong
Access
Boat from Hurghada or liveaboard
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Es el pecio hermano del Thistlegorm en la historia pero no en la fama: al descubrirse mucho más tarde y quedar fuera del alcance recreativo, se bucea bastante menos y se conserva mejor. Siguen en su sitio los ojos de buey con el cristal, los cacharros de la cocina y un silbato de vapor de cobre. Solo la parte más alta entra en límites recreativos ordinarios.
Sources consulted: DIVE Magazine; redsea-diving.com; fordivers.com; Blue Planet Liveaboards
46 species documented in Pecio Rosalie Möller
Critically EndangeredAlmeja gigante
Tridacna gigas
Anguila jardinera moteada
Heteroconger hassi
Anguila serpiente de bandas
Myrichthys colubrinus
Anémona alfombra gigante
Stichodactyla gigantea
Anémona disco
Discosoma nummiforme
Anémona magnífica
Heteractis magnifica
Babosa de mar española (Spanish dancer)
Hexabranchus sanguineus
Babosa de mar verrugosa
Onchidium verruculatum
Bigeye de arrecife
Priacanthus hamrur
Camarón limpiador
Lysmata amboinensis
Camarón mantis pavo real
Odontodactylus scyllarus
Camarón pistola
Alpheus bellulus
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