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Jeddah Season 2024: A Month of Entertainment and Diverse Experiences

Jeddah Season 2024 concluded its first month during which shows, events and a variety of experiences were held for the first time. (SPA)
Jeddah Season 2024 concluded its first month during which shows, events and a variety of experiences were held for the first time. (SPA)
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Jeddah Season 2024: A Month of Entertainment and Diverse Experiences

Jeddah Season 2024 concluded its first month during which shows, events and a variety of experiences were held for the first time. (SPA)
Jeddah Season 2024 concluded its first month during which shows, events and a variety of experiences were held for the first time. (SPA)

Jeddah Season 2024 concluded its first month under the slogan "Once Again", during which shows, events and a variety of experiences were held for the first time, the Saudi Press Agency said Sunday.
Large areas had been equipped to host different events and shows; international acrobatic teams presented daily live shows that attracted record numbers of visitors of all ages and nationalities.
Entertainment, tourism, cultural and sports activities and events filled the season. The City Walk area involved a mix of interactive experiences and movement and skill games. Arabic plays were presented and there were restaurants, cafés and shopping stores.
The Warner Bros. Discovery area, which opened for the first time in Saudi Arabia, offered visitors and tourists games and entertainment shows; other areas were opened to visitors, and events were held in partnership with the private sector.
The Imagine Monet exhibition featured Monet's paintings with modern techniques and innovative design; visitors could enjoy the artistic experience, but also sports.
Prince Majed Park offered wonderful and original shows that met the tastes of all.

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Octopus Riding a Shark Caught on Camera

Researchers with the University of Auckland captured the rare sighting in the Hauraki Gulf near Kawau Island in New Zealand. (Credit: University of Auckland)
Researchers with the University of Auckland captured the rare sighting in the Hauraki Gulf near Kawau Island in New Zealand. (Credit: University of Auckland)
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Octopus Riding a Shark Caught on Camera

Researchers with the University of Auckland captured the rare sighting in the Hauraki Gulf near Kawau Island in New Zealand. (Credit: University of Auckland)
Researchers with the University of Auckland captured the rare sighting in the Hauraki Gulf near Kawau Island in New Zealand. (Credit: University of Auckland)

A rare sighting, captured on video off the coast of New Zealand and shared by scientists affiliated with the University of Auckland, shows a Maori octopus riding on top of a mako shark, Fox News reported.

The university said the December 2023 encounter "was one of the strangest things University of Auckland marine scientists had ever seen. It was a mysterious sight indeed... octopus are mostly on the seabed while short-fin mako sharks don’t [favor] the deep."

The university researchers had been looking for shark feeding frenzies in the Hauraki Gulf near Kawau Island when a mako shark with an "orange patch" on its head was discovered, the report said.

The researchers launched a drone and put a GoPro camera in the water and "saw something unforgettable: an octopus perched atop the shark’s head, clinging on with its tentacles," University of Auckland Professor Rochelle Constantine wrote in a piece for the university last week.

Constantine added that the researchers moved on after 10 minutes, so they weren’t sure what happened to the "sharktopus" next, but the "octopus may have been in for quite the experience, since the world’s fastest shark species can reach [30 mph]."