Jeddah Memories

Jeddah Sea-port

Jeddah came under the sway of the Al-Saud dynasty in December 1925. In 1926, Ibn Saud added the title King of Hejaz to his position of Sultan of Nejd.

Jeddah in 1938

Jeddah's New Corniche - Gigantic And Modern Achievement

The new North Corniche in Jeddah Governorate is considered as a modern model comparable to the finest waterfronts in the world in terms of the magnitude of the accomplishment of the project, which is worth SR 180 million and spread over a lengthy area of 3.8 kilometers.

Beautiful View of Jeddah Corniche

The Mayor of Jeddah, Dr. Hani Abu Ras said that the North Corniche project comes within the framework of the strong support provided by the Government of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and the Crown Prince, as well as the efforts of Prince Khalid Al-Faisal, the Governor of Makkah region to make Jeddah as a global model city.

4 Truths About Children Who Drown . . .

You think that it could never happen to your family, but each year many children drown. These incidents are not only preventable but predictable. Here are the four truths about children who drown and what you can do to help keep your children safe around water.

Children drown quickly and silently — in a matter of seconds. Adults who are present when a child drowns are often distracted in some way, by talking on the phone, chatting with other adults around the pool or reading.

What you can do about it:

►Actively supervise your children around water, and have a phone nearby to call for help in an emergency.

►When there are several adults present and children are swimming, use a Water Watcher card to designate an adult as the Water Watcher to prevent gaps in supervision.

Nature's Best—Dressed

Sea slugs may be nature’s “best-dressed” marine animals, as the Red Sea creatures on article attest. Unlike their gardenpest cousins, they come in a dazzling array of shapes, sizes, colors and patterns, and they are definitely not slimy. In addition, they may offer scientists maps to new drugs through the chemical compounds they produce. Sea slugs, scientifically known as opisthobranchs (“rear gills” in Latin), are highly evolved relatives of marine snails. Primitive sea slugs retain a thin external or internal shell, but advanced ones, like the nudibranchs, or “naked gills,” pictured in this gallery, have none. Living without this protection means they have had to develop other methods of defense, expressed in a wide display of adaptations seen in sub-orders such as dorids (which have gills near the tail and two sensory horns near the head), dendronotids (thosewith tree-like gills in pairs along their backs) and aeolids (those covered with fingerlike projections). Their bright colors and bold patterns warn predators of their noxious taste.

The chromodorids are probably the most colorful and easiest sea slugs to recognize. Doris was a Greek goddess, the daughter of Oceanus, and chromo means color, so they are the colorful goddesses of the sea. Their colors and patterns are limitless, although their basic body plan remains the same. Chromodoris geminus Rudman, 1987 is found in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean and is truly beautiful underwater—its ocellated spots are almost luminescent. Like many spotted species, it flaps the edges of its mantle in a kind of rhythm, and the spots above and below glow.

Of the 4000-plus species of nudibranchs worldwide, more than 175 are found in the Red Sea and nearly one quarter of these live only there. This almost self-contained waterway—running some 2100 kilometers (1300 mi) from the Gulf of Suez in the north to the narrow Bab al-Mandab in the south—is a very special place, hosting endemic fish, sea urchins, worms, slugs and snails, and myriad other animals. It has been isolated for approximately five million years, and its fauna has suffered partial extinctions with several glaciations, the most recent 20,000 to 15,000 years ago, which substantially lowered sea levels. The Red Sea’s southern gateway opened around five million years ago—at the time land uplifts closed off its shallow link to the Mediterranean—and has never shut, so its fauna is Indo-Pacific.