>>[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.
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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.