The invention discloses a tide water identification and crisis early warning method based on a YOLO technology, and the method comprises: building a tide water data set through the data enhancement operation of zooming, rotating, translation and symmetry, extracting the atmospheric refractive index through filtering, carrying out the color balance operation of an image, and selecting an atmospheric light component A; carrying out defogging by using a dark channel, carrying out defogging on the image, and carrying out white balance operation on the image, so that a clear image is obtained; andtraining the processed image by adopting a YOLO network to obtain a tide water identification model. According to the model, the input image is recognized, the position and height of tide water and the distance and time from the tide water to equipment are calculated, and early warning can be given out in time when danger occurs. The a tide water identification and crisis early warning method is abeneficial supplement to tide water identification and crisis early warning at present, can automatically monitor the state of tide water, makes up for the defects of manual patrol, reduces the personnel death rate caused by tidal bore, and avoids family tragedies.