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Race Against the Tide is a Canadian television reality series, which premiered September 9, 2021 on CBC Television. [1] Hosted by Shaun Majumder in season 1 and Maestro Fresh Wes in seasons 2 and 3, the series features ten teams of artists competing to produce sand sculptures in the Bay of Fundy before the tide rises to destroy their creations.
The Bay of Fundy (French: Baie de Fundy) is a bay between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with a small portion touching the U.S. state of Maine. It is an arm of the Gulf of Maine. Its tidal range is the highest in the world. [1] The name is probably a corruption of the French word fendu, meaning 'split'. [2]
The decision to build the facility was partly prompted by the promise of federal funding for this alternative energy project, and the existence of a rock-filled causeway which had been built on the Annapolis River in 1960 by the Maritime Marshlands Reclamation Authority to block the Bay of Fundy tides from entering the river to replace the ...
Burntcoat is located in Cobequid Bay, near the eastern end of the Bay of Fundy. Burntcoat Head had a public wharf that has been the location of a tide gauge since the 19th century. The tide gauge at Burntcoat Head was operated by the Canadian Hydrographic Service and has recorded the highest tidal range in the world. Currently, the tidal gauge ...
An 1830 map showed the "Quoddy Hell-Gate" of "dangerous whirlpools" off the southern tip of Deer Island. The whirlpool is caused by local bathymetry and a 20-foot (6.1 m) tidal range [1] where waters exchange between Passamaquoddy Bay and the Bay of Fundy, combined with the topography of the location's sea floor at the confluence of the numerous local currents through channels and over small ...
Hall's Harbour is a fishing community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Kings County on the North Mountain along the shore of the Bay of Fundy. History [ edit ]
The Reversing Falls are a series of rapids on the Saint John River, located in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, where the river runs through a narrow gorge before emptying into the Bay of Fundy. The semidiurnal tides of the bay force the flow of water to reverse against the prevailing current when the tide is high.
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