Truck stuck in Bay of Fundy after failed boat retrieval
The Fundy tide waits for no man, or truck.
A local diver didn’t take heed and ended up sitting on the roof — not the dock of the bay — waiting for the tide to roll away.
The rising Bay of Fundy waters flooded over his truck in Scotts Bay on Wednesday afternoon.
A local farm tractor had to be deployed to pull out a 2016 Ford F-250 out of Minas Basin mud.
“It happens, but we’d rather it not happen,” said Neil Connors, President of Connors Diving, a company based in Halifax.
Connors confirmed it was in fact the first time that they lost a truck like that, after one of his employees tried to recover a boat at the end of the job.
“The tides from the Bay of Fundy come back so fast,” he told The Chronicle Herald.
Connors said the truck was transported back to a Ford dealership in Halifax today and he’s expecting it to be written off. It’s fully insured, he said.
The company was doing a one-day job for an engineering firm in the Bay of Fundy, but declined to say what they were doing diving for.
Reports from several sources say the work was for Cape Sharp, owned by Emera and
OpenHydro, which has been trying to recover its in-stream tidal device in the bay since mid-April.
Recovery work is expected to begin again this weekend during the next slack tidal window on Sunday, June 4.