Spectacular Views in Mamaia: Sea Recedes, Sand Islands Emerge

Spectacular images were taken yesterday in the seaside resort of Mamaia, where the Black Sea retreated, and where the water used to be, small islands of sand appeared. In addition, the beach was flooded and eroded after water from Lake Siutghiol reached it through a canal. Specialists say it all happened because of the direction the wind was blowing from.

The Black Sea has retreated tens of meters from the shore and the area has become the favorite place for birds.

Adrian Bâlbă – doctor of sciences, explained: “A lagoon aspect is starting to be created, which is very good for birds. Birds have a place to rest, feeding areas that are expanding and in this way we have a cluster of birds, of very interesting species.”

Also in Mamaia, in the same area, the beach was flooded, after the water from Lake Siutghiol reached here through a channel.

“It is a geomorphological effect compounded due to the influence of the sea, on the one hand, so the erosion from the sea, and, of course, this erosion is amplified by the increased water flow during this period from the lake. And the north wind creates a kind of push of the water masses towards the south, where there is this opening of the channel to the sea,” said in his turn R ăzvan Mateescu, researcher at the National Institute for Marine Research and Development “Grigore Antipa”

All the water has dug into the shore and thus a river has appeared in the sand. Representatives of the Dobrogea Litoral Water Basin Administration say that before the start of the summer season the entire beach surface will be leveled, and the water current will be directed towards the southern area of ​​the beach.

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  • Panagiotis Spyridis

    Yes if you look towards the sea, all is idilic. If you stand on the beach and face inland… you are shocked by Dubai like building irregularities that have caused a nature catastrophe.