Sea at Chandipur

A peculiarity of sea at Chandipur (Dist. Balasore, Odisha) is that in addition to normal high and low tides (Jwar and Bhata), associated with moon’s phases, there is another noticeable daily cycle for maximum and minimum water level. It is a strange phenomenon. Once during 24 hours the level of sea water rises so much so, that it touches the boundaries of Test range campus (DRDO), while receding at other time it goes back around 5 to 8 kms away from here. During this period one can easily walk, run or cycle around on the beach sand. The timings for these “high and low” differ everyday throughout the year, which can be found out by complex formulations. The physics of this “happening” lies in the inclination of earth around its axis and latitude/longitude of this place.

Missile flight trial teams utilize this occurrence to retrieve the metallic remnants from flights conducted towards sea for studying and drawing possible conclusions.

There is only one more such place in the world, somewhere in Brazil, which also experiences this phenomenon.