Tuesday, January 4 2005 13:51 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Port Blair: The Indian Navy has sent a huge ship to carry out hydrographic survey to see if there is any change in sea topography in the wake of the Tsunami disaster, which was triggered by massive undersea earthquake on December 26.

I N S Darshak, Captain of the ship, who came to the Naval jetty in Port Blair with 50 tonnes of relief materials from Vishakhapatnam, said today that the survey would check if there has been any change in the coastline as well.

"The ship can do multi-purpose work including carrying out relief. But after unloading relief we intend to carry out hydrographic survey, particularly the 'check survey' to ascertain whether any channel is blocked after Tsunami or there has been some change in depth," Captain P Jayapal said.

He said that the ship carried out a survey in the area two months back.

Asked whether they were noticing any apparent change in the two-month gap, the Captain said that there was no drastic change as such. "But there is very strong current, which is unprecedented in this area".