Weird Places: The Bay of Fundy
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- Опубликовано: 28 июл 2014
- SciShow takes you on a tour of Canada’s Bay of Fundy, home of the largest tidal range in the world.
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... 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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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!:)
OMG :D I live right on the bay, I love you guys
Oh my word this makes me so excited. Its nice when your area gets mentioned on something like this. New Brunswick represent!
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.
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 go past there in my travels a lot. Next time I'll pay attention to this and vlog it!
Ahhh! Love that you guys are talking about research in STEM fields. Keep it up!
I like the name "Bay of Fundy". Good episode I had no idea about the world "seiching".
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!
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'm so grateful that you use metric measures! Thanks alot!
I can see a little bit of the bay from here :) thanks for doing a episode on it!
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 :)
NEW BRUNSWICK GOT MENTIONED! ... It made me smile
Same haha
saint john!!!!!!
asu ra Me too!!!
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!
Very awesome episode. Keep up the good work. :)
im so glad you talked about this!!! i live super close to here !!
As a Canadian I never found this weird, it's a really cool place to visit!
So glad you mentioned Canada and one of our treasured natural beauties
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!)
it's great to see something local to me on such a big channel.
I live near the bay on the NS side, never knew how cool the process is that drives the insane tides
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.
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.
Woot woot. I live right beside the bay. :3 Was really surprising and exciting to see it as a topic of SciShow :D
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
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
I get to watch this every day :)
On the same subject, the tidal bore should be mentioned.
please do more of these I love themmmmmm
Proud to be Canadian and live near the Bay for a large part of my life.
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!
I LIVE THERE!!!
I live close.
I live nowhere near of Canada
I LIVE HERE!!!
Not Bay of Fundy...just...here.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Love the idea of highlighting weird places!
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!
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.
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.
I've seen it, it is pretty cool when that huge tide comes in!
I love right on the bay in new Brunswick :) pretty stellar tides.
Live.
Growing up in canada, I never knew this phenomenon was so amazing!
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.
This is so awesome.
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.
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!!!
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
Is that the same that happens in Saint-Malo, France? I think it's so awesome that we can get that tidal energy!
YAY!! I live in New Brunswick!😅😅
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 truly is something to see.
We have very similar tidal action in the Knik Arm and Turnagain Arm around Anchorage.
I want to say thank you to everyone who helped fundyng this episode.
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!
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.
That is so cool!
I live right next to the Bay of Fundy, it's beautiful. :)
the tides create some pretty cool formation, check out the rocks (Hopewell) they're very cool
That was an interesting topic!
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.
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.
I like this segment
awesome!
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.
this is the best video ever
Very nice
Thank you!
mind blown!
Saw this video just after I planned vacation here!
Why did this show up on the main page but not in my subscriptions (and yes, before someone wants to be smart, I am subscribed ;) )?
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.
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.
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
this is really cool, hank is talking about my home
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.
Woo Lunar Power! wait, would that be Helium 3?
Do Kamchatka next! Or sometime.😆
Awesome :-)
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.
I'm glad to call this place home
Fascinating, I'm from Newfoundland and I didn't know about this interesting fact of the Bay of Fundy. I think I heard of a hydroelectric dam or something, but not this. Very cool! Also, it's still pronounced Newf-in-LAND. Not New-Finlind. :P
Went camping there once, my favourite part of Canada
The bay of fundy is beautiful!!
thx for this awesomely ha bisky vid i love you hank
New Brunswick represent!
New Brunswick!!!
YAY to Canadian Fun Facts!
you sounded sick there hank, hopefully you are already feeling better
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