Red Sea Diving
The city of Jeddah is known as “the Bride of
the Red Sea”, but many visitors leave the city
never having got to know “the bridegroom”
with its dazzlingly beautiful coral reefs and myriad
colors and sizes of fish. Learning to scuba dive is
an easy way to rectify this. Contrary to popular belief
it is a sport almost everyone can take up, from young
to old; it’s extremely safe; it needn’t
cost the earth; and there’s no need to be a macho
man to do it!
From Ubhur Creek, north of Jeddah, dive boats leaves
daily to visit the offshore reefs of the Eliza Shoals.
This two Hundreds square mile shoal has many popular
dive sites. Many of the reefs reach the surface, so
the water are calm on the lee side, making them popular
with snorkeling and swimming as well as diving.
Three-meter high black coral trees are found at Black
Coral Canyons, a series of underwater canyons, which
drop eastward into the channel between the Arabian coast
and the shoals at depths of 25 to 30 meters. Blossoming
from these ridges are the rare and much revered black
coral trees, which are much too large to be referred
to as just bushes.
Few divers experience a site with more snap, crackle
and pop! The sounds of the sea really come alive here.
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