North (incl. Rosalie Moller) - Brother Islands - Salem Express

North (incl. Rosalie Moller) - Brother Islands - Salem Express

Höhepunkte der Route

  • The tour starts in Hurghada and leads you first to the famous WRACKS in the north of the Red Sea, then it continues to the Brother Islands with its drop-offs and big fish.
  • Fans of old sunken ships are guaranteed to get their money's worth on this liveaboard. At the Big Brother you will find the Numidia and the Aida and at both "brothers" you will find all the big fish the Red Sea has to offer - hammerheads, thresher sharks, grey sharks, oceanic whitetips...
  • Besides the wrecks of Abu Nuhas (Carnatic, Crisoula K, Ghiannis D.) the Thistlegorm is of course also on the program.
  • Diving the Rosalie Moller: This is a magnificent shipwreck which is virtually intact. She sits upright on the seabed at a maximum depth of 45 - 50 m. Almost everything is still in place including both masts - as far as the crosstrees. The decks are at 39 m.
  • In the night of December 14, 1991, while on route to the Egyptian port of Safaga, the Salem Express ran aground on Shaab Sheer reef during a storm and struck a leak. The ship had large open decks and sank in minutes. The passengers, mostly pilgrims returning from their Hajj to Mecca, were caught sleeping. It is still unclear why the captain deviated from the safe shipping route.
  • The Salem Express is now about 1.5 boat hours southeast of Safaga at a depth of between 11 and 32 meters on the starboard side. The wreck can be dived from the outside. Since not all bodies could be recovered from inside the ship, the Salem Express was officially declared a grave. In the meantime, the tailgate has been opened to dive in, but the cabins are still not allowed to be entered.

Tauchplätze auf dieser Route

  • SS Thistlegorm

    The English ship was on her way to Egypt to supply the English Africa Corps with supplies when she was attacked by a German bomber on 6.10.1941 and sank. The wreck lies upright on the seabed at a depth of 30 meters. The cargo is especially interesting: tanks, trucks, weapons, motorcycles, railroad cars as well as a locomotive. The Thistlegorm is a must for every Red Sea diver. She is a delight for wreck enthusiasts, not to mention her spectacular cargo. But she also offers a variety of fish. Schools of barracudas or big tunas and snappers are not uncommon here. As an artificial reef, it also attracts countless coral fish.<br/>

  • Brother Islands

    The Brother Islands one of the best diving spots in the world. The Islands – the Big Brother and the Little Brother – are two small exposed promontories that just come out of the water in the middle of the sea at around 60 km from the Egyptian coast line. The Little Brother has a very high concentration of life in a much reduced area. The walls are covered literally with sponges, anemones and all sorts of hard and soft corals in an astonishing variety of colors and shapes. Of course you will find here plenty of fish. It is not unusual to see sharks: hammerheads, thresher sharks, grey reef sharks, silvertip and whitetip reef sharks. About one km north of the Little Brother lays the Big Brother. Situated, in the middle of the island, is a lighthouse. When it is not too windy, you can proceed to dive the Wreck Numidia which lies upon the reef on the northern side of the island between 5 m and 80 m. This 150 m long ship sunk in 1901 and is now completely covered with both hard and soft corals and gorgonias. At the NW side of the island you will find the other Wreck: the AIDA. This 82 m long steam ship sunk 1957. The remaining pieces of the Wreck are scattered all over the reef and just the back side of the hull can be found between 34 m and 60 m. It is nicely overgrown and worth to visit. Because of strong current and may be high waves it is not easy to dive at the Brother’s. This safari is only for experienced divers.

  • Rosalie Moller

    The Rosalie Moller ran in 1910 under the name "Francis" from the stack. She was sold in 1931, given the name "Rosalie Moller" by the new shipowner and was primarily used as a general cargo ship between Shanghai and Tsingtao until the beginning of the war, and then commuted as a coal freighter between Liverpool and all British war ports from Portsmouth to Gibraltar. In 1941 she received the transfer order for the Red Sea. As with the Thistlegorm, the shorter journey through the Mediterranean Sea, which was dominated by the German and Italian air forces, was rejected and the 12,000 nm long route around Africa was started, reaching the Straits of Gubal in early October 1941 and the Thistlegorm anchored worldwide. Two days after the sinking of the Thistlegorm, on October 8, 1941, the Luftwaffe carried out another air raid on the ships lying at anchor, during which the Rosalie Moller began to sink due to a bomb hit at 00:45 AM, only to rise from the sea surface an hour later disappear . The wreck lies upright at a depth of 50 m, almost due north, the upper deck begins at a depth of approx. 30 m. Due to the depth, the current that is usually present and the difficult navigation, the Rosalie Moller is rarely approached and is only for experienced divers! You can either dive on a regular single tank or with tech-diving equipment for a longer bottom time if you so desire. The Rosalie Moller is the Sister Ship of the World famous, and maybe the best wreck dive in the World, Thistlegorm Shipwreck. The hard and soft coral is covering the hull and makes great underwater pictures opportunities. In addition, this artificial reef attracts an interesting variety of marine life with Barracudas, Tunas, Jacks and Trevallies looking for their next meal. Reef Sharks can also sometimes be spotted. Inside the Rosalie Moller is full of Glass fish, Lion fish and Groupers.

  • Salem Express

    In the night of December 14, 1991, while on route to the Egyptian port of Safaga, the Salem Express ran aground on Shaab Sheer reef during a storm and struck a leak. The ship had large open decks and sank in minutes. The passengers, mostly pilgrims returning from their Hajj to Mecca, were caught sleeping. It is still unclear why the captain deviated from the safe shipping route. The Salem Express is now about 1.5 boat hours southeast of Safaga at a depth of between 11 m and 32 m on the starboard side. The Wreck can be dived from the outside. Since not all bodies could be recovered from inside the ship, the Salem Express was officially declared as a grave. In the meantime, the tailgate has been opened to dive in, but the cabins are still not allowed to be entered. <br/>

  • Abu Nuhas / Carnatic

    The Carnatic, on a voyage from Liverpool to Bombay with 27 crew, 203 passengers, and a cargo of cotton, copper plates, and 40,000 pounds sterling in gold, ran aground on the reef Shab Abu Nuhas on the night of September 13, 1869. The ship initially remained on the reef, but broke apart and sank on September 15, despite various rescue attempts . Overconfidence in the ship's stability had a disastrous effect. Since the Carnatic had not been cleared and passengers and crew members were on board, the ship took 27 people down with it . The survivors first rescued themselves on Shadwan Island and were later recovered by the Sumatra. In October 1869, a helmet diver recovered most of the gold cargo as well as 700 copper plates. Several bodies were also discovered - one victim was still stuck in a porthole through which he had tried unsuccessfully to escape. 8,000 pounds sterling could still be in the wreck. No one has found them yet - perhaps they were secretly salvaged or disappeared under coral. The wreck was rediscovered in 1984 and has been a popular destination for Hurghada dive boats ever since. Since then, souvenir hunters have plundered it thoroughly. The Carnatic lies on its side at the base of the reef at a depth of 20 to 27 meters. In the middle the ship is badly damaged, bow and stern are well preserved. The wooden decks have rotted away so that it is safe to enter the interior. The hull is densely covered with stone and leather corals.

  • Abu Nuhas / Chrisoula

    After several previous owners, she finally changed to the shipping company Clarion Marine and was given the name Chrisoula K. Under this name she also made her last voyage, which took her to the area of the Abu Nuhas reef in the Red Sea on August 30, 1981 with a cargo of cheap Italian floor tiles. Due to a navigational error by the captain, the ship ran aground on the reef during the night of August 30 and sank. Today the wreck lies in an optimal position for divers at a depth between 5 meters and a maximum of 25 meters. The ship is in a slight inclination, the middle part is heavily damaged by the impact.

  • Abu Nuhas / Ghiannis

    For a long time the front half, which had run up on the reef, remained stationary and indicated the place of the accident, then it too sank and lay down on the port side. The aft half of the wreck lies somewhat inclined on the port side. Above the front of the quarterdeck rises the smokestack with the large letters "D". The "D" stands for the name of the shipping company: Danae. In front of the chimney is the bridge deck, behind it other spaces, a huge winch, the bollards, the intact railing, and even the frame that used to support a large awning was not damaged in the sinking. At the base of the funnel are narrow portholes leading into the engine room. The engines are an impressive sight with their long rows of cam arms, valves and pipes. The middle section of the ship resembles a junkyard, as iron girders are bent and torn, and the sides lie collapsed on the seabed. This area of the wreck is teeming with crocodile fish, scorpion fish and parrot fish. Some groupers have also made their home here.

  • Ras Mohammed with Jolanda & Shark Reef

    The cape takes its name from its rocky peak to the east, whose contours are reminiscent of a male profile with a beard - the head of Mohammed - carved in stone. Ras Mohamed is one of the world's most famous dive sites and is located at the tip of Sinai. Two small reefs are connected by a vertical sloping wall.<br/>Close to Shark Reef, a little further north, is Anemone City, an vast, shallow reef zone with numerous sea anemones and their red sea anemone fish and three-spotted damsel fish. From Shark Reef, you can drift with the current along a steep wall that drops several 100 m to Jolanda Reef. The wall is completely covered with colourful corals. On the way to Jolanda Reef you reach a plateau with small boulders and coral islands. Once at the reef, you will see the scattered remains of the Yolanda wreck ,containerised sanitation facilities for the construction industry, now completely taken over by the life of the coral reef.

  • Numidia

    The Red Sea has a width of 180 km at the Brothers, yet the crew managed to hit this small island - shortly after two o'clock in the morning, Captain Craig was rudely awakened by the violent impact of the ship on the reef at the northern end of the "Big Brother". The "officer on watch", Merwood, had probably fallen asleep at the same time as his boss. The resulting course then led the ship in truly somnambulistic safety right into the middle of the reef. The ship was thus stuck in and on the narrow fringing reef and all efforts to free itself failed. In the following days, attempts were made to tow the Numidia free with the help of other ships, but this failed. Captain Craig was left with the thankless task of remaining on the desolate island for several more weeks to supervise the salvage of the cargo. Probably in the winter storms of 1901/02, the ship was then torn from the reef and it sank for good.

  • Aida

    The dive on the AIDA is an extraordinary dive, no matter how much experience you have as a diver. It leaves you wondering how a ship can sink like that and stand on the sloping reef edge, as if parked. Since the ship no longer contains any cargo, one suspects that this has slipped through the wreck and now lies in deeper regions on the ground. Same as, the AIDA stands bolt upright on the sloping reef edge, the highest point at 25 m, the screw at 57 m. Apart from the collision with the reef, the ship is still completely intact. It has been there for more than 40 years now and is becoming more and more part of the reef, overgrown with corals.

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