近日，有网友在深圳湾畔拍摄到大片滩涂的场景并发布到社交平台上并配文：“深圳湾公园的海水都快干了”，引发热议。请看本报昨日的报道：

A video capturing a large tract of mudflats in Shenzhen Bay has recently gone viral on the internet, with a caption stating that the seawater in Shenzhen Bay was “drying up,” which sparked a heated discussion online.

However, several experts in the fields of hydrology, meteorology and oceanography have clarified that this phenomenon is the result of a normal tidal pattern rather than the “drying up of seawater,” Shenzhen Evening News reported.

报道中的mudflat就是“滩涂”，指沿海大潮高潮位与低潮位之间的潮浸地带或季节性河流湖泊高水位以下的滩地，也可以叫tidal flat，海边滩涂最常见的植物是红树林，也是大量候鸟觅食的场所。地球上极大部分地方的海水每天有两次涨潮和两次落潮，落潮时滩涂露出水面。