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

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is by following the Fundy coastal drive, 
which stretches along

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the New Brunswick coastline 
from its border with Maine,

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to its border 
with Nova Scotia.

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

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with each passing wave.

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

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

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

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of the provinces of 
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia,

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

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

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between 400 and 700 feet.

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

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are considered the 
highest tides in the world.

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There are a few reasons 
why this area of New Brunswick

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experiences the highest tides.

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One major reason 
is its funnel formation.

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As the gravitational forces of 
the sun and moon combine

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

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

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leaving it no place 
to go but up.

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So how much water actually 
flows into this area?

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Well, how about 
2 hundred billion tons each day.

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

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

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

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

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

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in water anywhere 
in maritime Canada.

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Unbelievable.