In the south of Al-Waqadi Island of the giant Red Sea project in Saudi Arabia, marine science and environment experts discovered a huge coral colony estimated to be about 600 years old and more than 10 meters high.
This discovery, made by a team from the company that developed the project, is the first of its kind in the Red Sea region, and the age of the coral reefs was determined by measuring the size and number of rings that grow annually on the colony's external structure, in addition to the presence of giant redwood trees. The Red Sea Company explained that the colony is a historical reference for past centuries, and will enable scientists through scientific methods to read the rings of coral reefs and know the temperature of the ocean in previous years, and its chemical composition at that time.

She added, in a statement to the Saudi Press Agency, that this discovery highlights the beauty of marine life on Al-Waqadi Island, west of the Red Sea project, the most ambitious tourism destination in the world, which will put Saudi Arabia on the global tourism map, as «corals are living organisms, and their beauty is usually formed when the primary coral unit is attached to a rock.