Red waves at Vizag beach go viral on social media

RED-TINGED waves were sighted along the RK Beach coast near the Kursura Submarine Museum this week, prompting curiosity among denizens.

- USHA PERI @ Visakhapatnam

The occurrence was captured on camera by local Instagramer M Gnanesh, whose video later went viral on social media.

Explaining the phenomenon, Dr Ramesh Babu, Head of the Marine Living Resources Department at Andhra University, said the colour change might be linked to natural oceanographic processes involving internal currents and plankton activity. "Just as the sea has surface waves driven by wind, it also has internal currents, including warm water currents that move along the coast from north to south. These currents transport microscopic plankton and, under certain conditions, cause them to accumulate near the shore," he explained.