>>[narration] The easiest way to 
experience the Bay of Fundy region

is by following the Fundy coastal drive, 
which stretches along

the New Brunswick coastline 
from its border with Maine,

to its border 
with Nova Scotia.

[waves crashing]
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>>[narration] It is forever fluctuating, 
and its shoreline evolves

with each passing wave.

As the water in the Bay of Fundy 
ebbs and flows,

it creates a phenomena that 
occurs nowhere else on the planet.

Located on the east coast of Canada,
and resting on the coastlines

of the provinces of 
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia,

and the American state of Maine, 
the Bay of Fundy stretches 180 miles long,

and the mouth of the bay is 62 miles wide,
with its depth ranging

between 400 and 700 feet.

The tides of the Bay of Fundy 
are so dramatic that they

are considered the 
highest tides in the world.

There are a few reasons 
why this area of New Brunswick

experiences the highest tides.

One major reason 
is its funnel formation.

As the gravitational forces of 
the sun and moon combine

to create a continuum of 
tidal action all over the world,

this unique shape of the bay allows 
for water to flow into a narrow point,

leaving it no place 
to go but up.

So how much water actually 
flows into this area?

Well, how about 
2 hundred billion tons each day.

>>[Richard Faulkner] Oceanographers
calculate that that equals the discharge

of every single freshwater 
river on planet earth in a day.

And the one I like best, 
if you bulldozed New Brunswick,

Nova Scotia, and PEI flat, 
and you allowed the water

to accumulate from those two tides, 
you would actually be standing thigh-deep

in water anywhere 
in maritime Canada.

Unbelievable.