Show FUNDY TIDES 1 VORTEXES THAT GIVE UP FEW VICTIMS whirlpool swallow swallows everything within its reach in mighty gulp gulps washington the tidal currents cur renta of abe bay of fundy create few baranger bt ranger phenomena than are to be found in the whirlpools that lie between the southerly tip of deer island N B and eastport East port maine statue these mighty vortexes are formed on the flood or incoming tide by tho the converging converging of two powerful currents one moves up the main channel campobello island turning near eastport East Rast port and flowing onward into st andrews bay and the st croix river the other rushes in through indian river as the passage between indian island and deer island Is known near deer island point the swift moving waters pour over a shoal into an immense chasm on the bottom of the sea coast and geodetic a irvey chart gives the depth of li ur shoals as 36 and 42 feet feel while all round are depths of from to feet feel this unusual topography of the seas floor produces a series of unruly whirlpools at full tide these are partial wonderful to behold they twist and bore seethe and boll rafts of kelp devil a apron or odds and ends of ot driftwood and ciscel laneous fio fol tsara latil and jetsam are swallowed in mighty and ones capable gulps bajes tic ley I 1 one whirl the old sow la 13 feared even bj by the fis fishermen bermen it has an estimated depth of from CO 50 to feet si although though no person knows absolutely how far below the surface its gargantuan gyrations extend old sow reverses that aphorism to ate effect hat that what goes up most must come down except that here the fishermen assert what goes down does not feces bartly come op up or if it it docs does it may be in to form many years ago this tilts vortex claimed as its victims a staunch little deer island fishing schooner and be the ill three men aboard the vessel was returning from a salt fish rip trip the whirl wallowed swallowed the luckless Inc kless hooner itch tc onner in ore ravening gulp the nen men were drowned almost in sight slight of their knea |