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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 5674890" data-attributes="member: 6957">The Old Sow (largest  whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere, and a known ship eater).From the OldSowWhirlpool.com :Just How Big Is Old Sow?'How does one measure a whirlpool? The broad area of disorderly water is vast, running from near Clam Cove, Deer Island, to south of the international bridge between Campobello Island, NB, and Lubec, ME, a distance of around 7 miles / 11 kilometres, and to the northeast, between Deer Island and Indian Island (just to the south of Deer Island); however, Old Sow itself — the largest vortex and its compatriots — is confined to an area that is much smaller.In 1997 the Old Sow Whirlpool Survivor’s Association President took an aerial photograph of the whirlpool. Using the diameter of the navigation beacon tower at the southern end of Deer Island as a reference, he extrapolated that the smaller, but most active of the two large vortexes that were present at that time was approximately 76 metres / 250 feet in diameter!' The Bay of Fundy - a 55.8 tide in six hours and thirteen minutes at the flood near Burntcoat Head.The Auld Grump</blockquote>