Twice a day, the sea vanishes from this Odisha beach. Visitors can walk kilometres out onto ground the ocean normally covers.
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Where the Sea Disappears
- Chandipur sits in Balasore district, Odisha, on the shore of the Bay of Bengal.
- At low tide, the sea recedes up to 5 kilometres from the shoreline, twice a day.
- Visitors can walk out onto the exposed sea floor while the water is out.
- The tide returns at high tide, without a fixed daily schedule, since it follows the lunar cycle rather than the clock.
- Locals call it a ‘hide-and-seek’ beach for this reason.
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Where This Phenomenon Actually Occurs
- The place Chandipur, in Odisha’s Balasore district, is where the sea recedes and returns twice daily.
- Answer: (c) Chandipur.
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