Beneath tonnes of trash, divers find signs of life in Jeddah Marina

JEDDAH: When divers descended to the Jeddah Marina seabed, they expected to find years of accumulated waste.

What surprised them was what they found beneath the debris.

In patches where the seabed was free of waste, marine life was already reclaiming its place among the marina’s waters.

“We found soft and hard corals growing and fish living there. We even came across the largest boxfish any of us have ever seen as divers, living in the marina as its natural home,” said Abdurrahman Al-Haddad, regional manager of SSI Arabia and general manager of Al-Haddad Scuba.

“It is the debris, not the location, that has been holding marine life back.”