In order to improve the accuracy of tidal forecasting, this paper applies the bi-directional long short-term memory (Bi-LSTM) recurrent neural model to tidal forecasting for the first time. A high-precision Bi-LSTM recurrent neural network tide forecasting model is established, and the tidal water level corresponding to subsequent time points is predicted based on the tidal water level in the first few hours. Taking the Isabel port as an experimental object, the real-time tide forecast simulation was performed using the measured tide data of the Isabel port. Simulation results show: Compared with the traditional harmonic analysis method, BP neural network model, RBF neural network model, traditional RNN model, and LSTM recurrent neural network model, the accuracy of using Bi-LSTM recurrent neural network tide prediction model to predict the tides of the port increased by 99.0%, 89.9%, 93.8%, 79.8%, 29.5% respectively.