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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]
[♪ opening music ♪]
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It is forever fluctuating, and its
shoreline evolves 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.
