Where does seawater go when it’s low tide?
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Almost every answer here is somewhat misleading, with regard to your actual question about where the water goes. The water doesn’t travel to the spots with the opposite tide, to do that it would have to travel hundreds, even thousands of miles per hour. The actual coastal water goes offshore a few miles. I’ve watched small boats and debris go out with the tide and come back in with it for decades. Anyone who lives by the sea is accustomed to that process.
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