It is really an amazing natural phenomenon. However, living next to it, seeing it at ground level, it either looks like a giant body of water or a vast field of mud. Either way it's not super exhilarating, lol.
I've lived on the Bay of Fundy my whole life, it's an extremely beautiful place. If you ever come through here, I really encourage you to check it out. There's also whale watching and tidal bore rafting (a tidal bore is a lone wave that occurs when the tides switch directions, it's a bit like a mini tsunami) and just checking out the beaches which are cool because you can see the effect of the extreme tides
The bay's enormous tides also have an interesting effect on New Brunswick's saint John river. At a place called "reversing falls", the tides are so strong they can actually cause the river to run "upstream" for a while at high tide
The phenomenon is very beautiful to see in person. You can walk on the ocean floor, and a few hours later go canoeing at the exact same place. Living in NB has ups and downs. Literally.
Hank, you're amazing. The kind of speech you use to convey a message should be taken as an example by teachers around the world. Kids would be smarter all around. Keep up with the good work.
I love maybe 30-40 minutes away from the Bay (and by that I mean the National Park) so I'm used to the phenomenon. But I always get a kick out of it when I hear tourists say how amazing it is because I know they've never seen something like these tides before.
Not from the Maritimes, but just drove through there (twice) a week or so ago. Seeing the tidal mudflats at low and high tide was pretty awe-inspiring, even if time didn't allow a proper look at the bay itself.
Thanks Hank, I now appreciate how special my little corner of the world actually is now that I understand it's physical characteristics a little better. Love your channel!
I grew up swimming in Peggy's Cove (a branch of the Bay of Fundy) and saw the large tidal movements as normal for the longest time. I was very surprised to learn that other parts of the world experienced such insignificant (relatively speaking) tidal change. For the many of you out there who have never had the privilege of walking on the ocean floor at low tide, do yourself a favour and make the trip out to see what it's all about. It's a very beautiful place to be.
Peggy's Cove is on the Atlantic side of NS, not The Bay of Fundy side. The rise and fall of the tides would not be as extreme there. Still, it's a great place to visit.
I'm living about 360 km up the river here and we have around 3-4m tides. But there coast is less than 2 hrs away so walking on the ocean floor isn't too uncommon for a holiday destination.
My family has a cottage on Deer Island which is on the bay and the high tides nearly come to our doorstep. You should do a video on the old sow whirlpool. Thanks for teaching me more about this interesting place!
I live on Grand manan island, smack in the middle of the Bay of fundy. I get to watch the awesome power of the tide's everyday... storm tide's suck though
I almost went to the Bay of Fundy on a summer study-abroad program, but the trip was canceled at the last moment due to issues with professor availability. I was supposed to take a biology class studying organisms in the Bay of Fundy during low tide! I would've loved to have been able to go there!
Thank you! This is a great jumping off point for if and when I have my students do an inquiry about renewable sources of energy, and they can choose this type .
Great episode - I'm surprised you didn't mention the Hopewell Rocks though! It's directly related to the tidal range in the Bay of Fundy, and the visuals are awesome :)
In 1975 my family and I were staying in a campground on the Bay of Fundy. I walked on the bottom while the tide was out. It was a very sticky mud! Any time we are near the Windor River, we would go to watch the tidal wave roll up the river when the tide came in.
Hah. I went to University in the Annapolis Valley. The view from my apartment was either a lovely basin (known as the Minas Basin) or a lot of mud. Depending on the time of day. It's really quite a sight.
This reminds of Argyle Lake in Australia which (if I remember correctly) is a very seasonal lake that will all but evaporate at certain point throughout the year only to return in full with the start of the rainy season.
lived at the top of the fundy all my life... the tidal bore can be substantial in some places and those underwater turbines they've tried many projects but they get DESTROYED by the both the tidal power and crap in the water.
went kayaking/camping in the Bay of Fundy a couple of times and man.... It was beautiful, except the night fog and frequent fog warning alarms but it was so isolated from civilization that you can basically find tranquility there!!!
If it was not for today's fog I could see the Bay of Fundy right now. I always find it weird when I visit other places in the world and the tides hardly change.
Hank, the way you say Fundy made me laugh a bit. I was really excited when I saw this video though, but what about the Reversing Falls in the Saint John River? Worth a mention at least, it is a river that flows in two directions.
There are some spots in Nova Scotia, like Cape D'Or lighthouse, where you can see the tide rushing out of the Bay with incredible force, as if someone pulled a massive plug under the sea nearby. If you jumped in the water at Cape D'Or as the tide was going out it would be like you were on a speed boat. The Bay of Fundy is such a beautiful place too
I am super geeking out because Hank Green is talking about my part of the world. I am currently in the Annapolis Valley, I could drive to the Bay of Fundy and put my feet in the water in less than 30 minutes!
One of my professors and several people I go to school with are involved with the investigation of tidal power in The Bay of Fundy. A turbine has already been placed there once before but the tides were so strong that it was destroyed.
I heard that here in Channel Islands weare among the biggest tidal ranges in the world - you have to time your swim carefully at the bays of Guernsey and Jersey. Sometimes our seafront gets water up to the doors of the grocery stores on a particularly high tide because they made the wall high but not that high.
You have to differentiate between tidal range (height between high and low tide) and the speed of tidal currents. The latter are indeed very pronounced around the Channel Islands. We have a sailing boat. When approaching the islands with a following tide you have to take care that you are not swept past. You’ll have a very hard time beating back.
Hello from the second highest tidal movement in the world, the River Severn on the far side of the pond, home to the famous Severn Bore (look it up) with a tidal range of 15 metres (49 feet) and one of its feeds the River Avon ... right through the middle of a city called Bristol which I call simply, Home.
Hooray, Some Nova Scotia on SciShow! I live in NS and some of my family worked on the Annapolis Royal hydro project when it was built. I think they still do tours of the facility for the public. The place with the highest recorded tides in the world is called Burncoat Head. Google them for a website and go visit for a cool look at nature.
There is a place near St. Andrews, NB called Ministers Island that you can drive to at low tide, but the "road" is about 8-10 meters under water at high tide.
In all fairness, this effect is only relevant in very few specific cases and therefore doesn’t have to be mentioned in the majority of tides explanations.
I live in Saint John where we get about 7 meter tides. Most ships have to come in on the high tide and in the case of container ships have to be unloaded and loaded before the tide rises again and they leave the harbour. The Cruise Ships do the same come into port on the high tide and leave on the high tides.
I lived there and when you see people canoeing through a place you walked to only like a half hour before your like how did this not win the contest to become the 8th natural wonder of the world
Great episode, however I'm kind of surprised and disappointed that you guys didn't include pictures of the actual bay from eye-level. It a pretty sweet thing to see.
I'm amused by all the comments from my fellow New Brunswickers (well, I guess I'm now an ex-New Brunswicker, though it still feels like home) writing 'New Brunswick was mentioned somewhere!'. In all my travels around this planet over the last 10-15 years I can count on my two hands the number of people who have heard of our province (Nova Scotians in the comments, in my experience people have heard of your province, even if their knowledge on the topic is vague in the extreme. Happy that you got mentioned too). Time to join in on the chorus: Yay, New Brunswick was mentioned! It's something at least.
Thinking about where that lunar energy comes from is pretty crazy. What we are harvesting is ancient kinetic energy, the angular momentum of earth to be precise. The rotation of earth drags the water up the Lunar gravity well, and when the gates open it flows back down through the generator. The physics here is just crazy.
There is a similar place in India, Balasore, wherein the time between high tide and low tide is about 6 hours. The sea subsides for 5 Km during every full cycle.
Even though the Bay of Fundy is really well known, I still get excited when it's mentioned. Yay! That's where I live!! (Well, not in the Bay, but nearby.) Also a lot of people here pronounce it a bit more like "Fun-Day" and when I was a kid I thought it was actually called the bay of Fun Day, because you went there to have a fun day.
I would love to see Sci-show cover The Great Salt Lake, located in northern Utah. It is by definition a salty body of water, however; a strange in-land sea. Can we see what information Sci-show can come up with that will blow our minds? Pleeaassee!!! xD
My highschool textbook back in the 90's said the controversy was that a tidal dam at Fundy releasing all its water would cause tides to surge as far away as Boston. I guess this means that kind of dam is out of the question.
while in Sea Cadets during the 90's I sailed in that basin right next to the Annapolis tidal damn. While they were on the water would get so foamy it was gross.
My family went on a trip to the Bay of Fundy when we lived in Fredericton NB. I think i was 5 at the time. My dad terrified me when we went exploring these caves along the beach. He told me that we "had to hurry or the tide would drown us" since it rose so fast. Silly dad trying to be funny but having the opposite effect. He also said that where our car was parked would be under water in a few hours (which was true).
I think these new turbines will be mostly used in high water flow situations like rivers. Even after water going through hydro plant dams in order to make use of the kinetic energy or water once gone through the system. Same thing would apply to bay or ocean areas where there is lots of currents moving most of the time. Remember its not only about how much but also how often to you have the energy source, same case as for wind turbines.
... Hank green just talked about the place I live like an exotic location... My life is complete.
Same xD
Liam H right, whenever he talks about Canada I get excited
Me toooooo!!!
It is really an amazing natural phenomenon. However, living next to it, seeing it at ground level, it either looks like a giant body of water or a vast field of mud. Either way it's not super exhilarating, lol.
Same bro
I've lived on the Bay of Fundy my whole life, it's an extremely beautiful place. If you ever come through here, I really encourage you to check it out. There's also whale watching and tidal bore rafting (a tidal bore is a lone wave that occurs when the tides switch directions, it's a bit like a mini tsunami) and just checking out the beaches which are cool because you can see the effect of the extreme tides
The bay's enormous tides also have an interesting effect on New Brunswick's saint John river. At a place called "reversing falls", the tides are so strong they can actually cause the river to run "upstream" for a while at high tide
Lots of rivers do this the Columbia river can run backwards more than 30 miles from the ocean during the high tide flood.
I live there. I go over the bridge overlooking it everyday I go to work. :)
This is all around the BoF. I'm in Nova Scotia, all our rivers do this twice a day.
The phenomenon is very beautiful to see in person. You can walk on the ocean floor, and a few hours later go canoeing at the exact same place.
Living in NB has ups and downs. Literally.
I think it would have been awesome if a time lapse video of the bay showing the rising and lowering of the tide was included in this episode.
Hank, you're amazing. The kind of speech you use to convey a message should be taken as an example by teachers around the world. Kids would be smarter all around. Keep up with the good work.
I love maybe 30-40 minutes away from the Bay (and by that I mean the National Park) so I'm used to the phenomenon. But I always get a kick out of it when I hear tourists say how amazing it is because I know they've never seen something like these tides before.
We don't get many tides down here in north east Texas lol
I'd love to see it lol
I am from New-Brunswick, it's awesome in every way!!!!! I see the famous Chocolate River from my living room!!!!
I'm in sj, see it on my way to work every morning on the highway! :)
Pretty awesome when they talk about local phenomena :) from saint john area
Not from the Maritimes, but just drove through there (twice) a week or so ago. Seeing the tidal mudflats at low and high tide was pretty awe-inspiring, even if time didn't allow a proper look at the bay itself.
Now we know where to find you 0.0
I do too!:)
Shout out to my fellow Nova Scotians out there!
woot woot
shout out at ya my maritime brother
What about NB? 😧
NB is part of the maritime's
I'm from Nova Scotia too.
OMG :D I live right on the bay, I love you guys
Living near the Bay of Fundy is pretty neat, actually. I don't see it as weird, but the tides are always a little crazy...
Yeah, you never look at weird things near you until some internet guy says starts talking about them.
Went their as a kid and I was blown away. The rock formations are pretty neat as well.
I still find new rock formations and beaches, and such as well.
Oh my word this makes me so excited. Its nice when your area gets mentioned on something like this. New Brunswick represent!
Thanks Hank, I now appreciate how special my little corner of the world actually is now that I understand it's physical characteristics a little better. Love your channel!
I go past there in my travels a lot. Next time I'll pay attention to this and vlog it!
As a Canadian I never found this weird, it's a really cool place to visit!
NEW BRUNSWICK GOT MENTIONED! ... It made me smile
Same haha
saint john!!!!!!
asu ra Me too!!!
Ahhh! Love that you guys are talking about research in STEM fields. Keep it up!
I grew up swimming in Peggy's Cove (a branch of the Bay of Fundy) and saw the large tidal movements as normal for the longest time. I was very surprised to learn that other parts of the world experienced such insignificant (relatively speaking) tidal change. For the many of you out there who have never had the privilege of walking on the ocean floor at low tide, do yourself a favour and make the trip out to see what it's all about. It's a very beautiful place to be.
Peggy's Cove is on the Atlantic side of NS, not The Bay of Fundy side. The rise and fall of the tides would not be as extreme there. Still, it's a great place to visit.
I'm living about 360 km up the river here and we have around 3-4m tides. But there coast is less than 2 hrs away so walking on the ocean floor isn't too uncommon for a holiday destination.
Hank, I can't get enough of your face (and your knowledge). And I mean that in a completely supportive and platonic way. Go Nerdfighteria!
***** Just what a guy wants to hear! How sexually uninterested you are in him!
My family has a cottage on Deer Island which is on the bay and the high tides nearly come to our doorstep. You should do a video on the old sow whirlpool. Thanks for teaching me more about this interesting place!
So glad you mentioned Canada and one of our treasured natural beauties
I like the name "Bay of Fundy". Good episode I had no idea about the world "seiching".
I live on Grand manan island, smack in the middle of the Bay of fundy. I get to watch the awesome power of the tide's everyday... storm tide's suck though
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it's great to see something local to me on such a big channel.
I almost went to the Bay of Fundy on a summer study-abroad program, but the trip was canceled at the last moment due to issues with professor availability. I was supposed to take a biology class studying organisms in the Bay of Fundy during low tide! I would've loved to have been able to go there!
I remember, Bay of Fundy at dusk (10 PM)
Water appearing as Royal Blue ink and cute Easter egg colored boats bobbing about.
I'm so grateful that you use metric measures! Thanks alot!
I want to say thank you to everyone who helped fundyng this episode.
The Bay of Fundy is one of the most beautiful places on earth. Visit it. And be sure to go tidal bore rafting! (Please do a video about tidal bores!)
I can see a little bit of the bay from here :) thanks for doing a episode on it!
I LIVE THERE!!!
I live close.
I live nowhere near of Canada
I LIVE HERE!!!
Not Bay of Fundy...just...here.
Proud to be Canadian and live near the Bay for a large part of my life.
Very awesome episode. Keep up the good work. :)
Reversing Falls in Saint John is a great place to this phenomenon too. Plus how often do you get to see a falls reverse?
i live 3 minutes away from Reversing Falls!
Thank you! This is a great jumping off point for if and when I have my students do an inquiry about renewable sources of energy, and they can choose this type .
I live near the bay on the NS side, never knew how cool the process is that drives the insane tides
Great episode - I'm surprised you didn't mention the Hopewell Rocks though! It's directly related to the tidal range in the Bay of Fundy, and the visuals are awesome :)
I've been the the Bay of Fundy a gajillion times. I've watched the tides AND they also have jellyfish you can hold there!
In 1975 my family and I were staying in a campground on the Bay of Fundy. I walked on the bottom while the tide was out. It was a very sticky mud! Any time we are near the Windor River, we would go to watch the tidal wave roll up the river when the tide came in.
Hah. I went to University in the Annapolis Valley.
The view from my apartment was either a lovely basin (known as the Minas Basin) or a lot of mud. Depending on the time of day.
It's really quite a sight.
I lived all my life 40 min from the bay and just now I have a perfect explanation of it. Thanks Hank lol
I live in Halifax, so I'm not too far away too
I get to watch this every day :)
On the same subject, the tidal bore should be mentioned.
This reminds of Argyle Lake in Australia which (if I remember correctly) is a very seasonal lake that will all but evaporate at certain point throughout the year only to return in full with the start of the rainy season.
im so glad you talked about this!!! i live super close to here !!
lived at the top of the fundy all my life... the tidal bore can be substantial in some places and those underwater turbines they've tried many projects but they get DESTROYED by the both the tidal power and crap in the water.
Yup, I've been to the Bay of Fundy a few times. It's crazy.
But down the coast here in New England we still have quite high tides.
there was already a tidal turbine in the bay at the time this video was released, fundy force, in west bay.
went kayaking/camping in the Bay of Fundy a couple of times and man.... It was beautiful, except the night fog and frequent fog warning alarms but it was so isolated from civilization that you can basically find tranquility there!!!
If it was not for today's fog I could see the Bay of Fundy right now. I always find it weird when I visit other places in the world and the tides hardly change.
Hank, the way you say Fundy made me laugh a bit. I was really excited when I saw this video though, but what about the Reversing Falls in the Saint John River? Worth a mention at least, it is a river that flows in two directions.
He says it the way it's said here in NS, didn't know it was pronounced different in NB
He said it the correct way. Many mispronounce it like "fun-day", to the point where the proper fundy sounds weird.
Tide goes in, tide goes out. Hank can't explain it.
uncleanunicorn lol is that supposed to be bill o Riley reference?
nice work mate keep it up
Growing up in canada, I never knew this phenomenon was so amazing!
There are some spots in Nova Scotia, like Cape D'Or lighthouse, where you can see the tide rushing out of the Bay with incredible force, as if someone pulled a massive plug under the sea nearby. If you jumped in the water at Cape D'Or as the tide was going out it would be like you were on a speed boat. The Bay of Fundy is such a beautiful place too
I lived in Annapolis Royal where the tidal power plant is for a few months and they have tours. It was a pretty impressive place to see.
Recently announced that the tidal power plant will be dismantled. Generator is worn out.
I am super geeking out because Hank Green is talking about my part of the world. I am currently in the Annapolis Valley, I could drive to the Bay of Fundy and put my feet in the water in less than 30 minutes!
*holds up brooch with large clear crystal and shouts!* "MOOOOON......COZZZZMIC........POWER!!!!!!
Love the idea of highlighting weird places!
Woot woot. I live right beside the bay. :3 Was really surprising and exciting to see it as a topic of SciShow :D
One of my professors and several people I go to school with are involved with the investigation of tidal power in The Bay of Fundy. A turbine has already been placed there once before but the tides were so strong that it was destroyed.
I heard that here in Channel Islands weare among the biggest tidal ranges in the world - you have to time your swim carefully at the bays of Guernsey and Jersey. Sometimes our seafront gets water up to the doors of the grocery stores on a particularly high tide because they made the wall high but not that high.
You have to differentiate between tidal range (height between high and low tide) and the speed of tidal currents. The latter are indeed very pronounced around the Channel Islands. We have a sailing boat. When approaching the islands with a following tide you have to take care that you are not swept past. You’ll have a very hard time beating back.
Hello from the second highest tidal movement in the world, the River Severn on the far side of the pond, home to the famous Severn Bore (look it up) with a tidal range of 15 metres (49 feet) and one of its feeds the River Avon ... right through the middle of a city called Bristol which I call simply, Home.
Hooray, Some Nova Scotia on SciShow! I live in NS and some of my family worked on the Annapolis Royal hydro project when it was built. I think they still do tours of the facility for the public. The place with the highest recorded tides in the world is called Burncoat Head. Google them for a website and go visit for a cool look at nature.
Just announced the tidal power plant will be dismantled.
There is a place near St. Andrews, NB called Ministers Island that you can drive to at low tide, but the "road" is about 8-10 meters under water at high tide.
Really good explanation--most of the other explanations of the tides I've seen don't even try to address this effect.
In all fairness, this effect is only relevant in very few specific cases and therefore doesn’t have to be mentioned in the majority of tides explanations.
YAY!! I live in New Brunswick!😅😅
I live in Saint John where we get about 7 meter tides. Most ships have to come in on the high tide and in the case of container ships have to be unloaded and loaded before the tide rises again and they leave the harbour. The Cruise Ships do the same come into port on the high tide and leave on the high tides.
+Charles Damery ok
Me too
Me too.
please do more of these I love themmmmmm
I've seen it, it is pretty cool when that huge tide comes in!
I live right next to the Bay of Fundy, it's beautiful. :)
We have very similar tidal action in the Knik Arm and Turnagain Arm around Anchorage.
I lived there and when you see people canoeing through a place you walked to only like a half hour before your like how did this not win the contest to become the 8th natural wonder of the world
Is that the same that happens in Saint-Malo, France? I think it's so awesome that we can get that tidal energy!
I love right on the bay in new Brunswick :) pretty stellar tides.
Live.
Great episode, however I'm kind of surprised and disappointed that you guys didn't include pictures of the actual bay from eye-level. It a pretty sweet thing to see.
EFF YES NOVA SCOTIA!!! c: That made me so happy.... Hank knows we exist..
It truly is something to see.
I'm amused by all the comments from my fellow New Brunswickers (well, I guess I'm now an ex-New Brunswicker, though it still feels like home) writing 'New Brunswick was mentioned somewhere!'. In all my travels around this planet over the last 10-15 years I can count on my two hands the number of people who have heard of our province (Nova Scotians in the comments, in my experience people have heard of your province, even if their knowledge on the topic is vague in the extreme. Happy that you got mentioned too).
Time to join in on the chorus: Yay, New Brunswick was mentioned! It's something at least.
Thinking about where that lunar energy comes from is pretty crazy. What we are harvesting is ancient kinetic energy, the angular momentum of earth to be precise. The rotation of earth drags the water up the Lunar gravity well, and when the gates open it flows back down through the generator.
The physics here is just crazy.
This is so awesome.
There is a similar place in India, Balasore, wherein the time between high tide and low tide is about 6 hours. The sea subsides for 5 Km during every full cycle.
the tides create some pretty cool formation, check out the rocks (Hopewell) they're very cool
As a Canadian, I felt like this was cram time before my third grade geography test. Whoo, something I know the answer to!
Even though the Bay of Fundy is really well known, I still get excited when it's mentioned. Yay! That's where I live!! (Well, not in the Bay, but nearby.)
Also a lot of people here pronounce it a bit more like "Fun-Day" and when I was a kid I thought it was actually called the bay of Fun Day, because you went there to have a fun day.
I would love to see Sci-show cover The Great Salt Lake, located in northern Utah. It is by definition a salty body of water, however; a strange in-land sea. Can we see what information Sci-show can come up with that will blow our minds? Pleeaassee!!! xD
Went camping there once, my favourite part of Canada
"Tides go in tides go out. You can't explain it" - Bill O'Reilly
^Never a miscommunication.
My highschool textbook back in the 90's said the controversy was that a tidal dam at Fundy releasing all its water would cause tides to surge as far away as Boston. I guess this means that kind of dam is out of the question.
while in Sea Cadets during the 90's I sailed in that basin right next to the Annapolis tidal damn. While they were on the water would get so foamy it was gross.
Saw this video just after I planned vacation here!
this is really cool, hank is talking about my home
It's always a fun day at Fundy
Unless it rains, then you're screwed.
Nova Scotia proud :)
Ya Canada! When ever there's a video on Canada you know we Canadians will be there in the comments
I'm glad to call this place home
I remember doing a project on this when I was about 8 years old. One day I want to visit and see these tides for myself.
If you do, the best place to see it is probably Hopewell Rocks.
Oooh thanks! I'll try to keep that in mind =)
Nova Scotia born and raised in New Brunswick. I've seen the bay from all sides and in places the tide can outrun an adult.
My family went on a trip to the Bay of Fundy when we lived in Fredericton NB. I think i was 5 at the time. My dad terrified me when we went exploring these caves along the beach. He told me that we "had to hurry or the tide would drown us" since it rose so fast. Silly dad trying to be funny but having the opposite effect. He also said that where our car was parked would be under water in a few hours (which was true).
this is the best video ever
I think these new turbines will be mostly used in high water flow situations like rivers. Even after water going through hydro plant dams in order to make use of the kinetic energy or water once gone through the system.
Same thing would apply to bay or ocean areas where there is lots of currents moving most of the time.
Remember its not only about how much but also how often to you have the energy source, same case as for wind turbines.