The second-largest whirlpool in the world, the Old Sow, is found near Deer Island, where the Passamaquoddy Bay meets the Bay of Fundy. Harold Lord of Lord’s Cove, Deer Island, recalls accidentally going through the Old Sow on his small schooner, the Island Girl, in 1897, whilst returning home in the fog. “There was a great sucking sound, and the water roiled and boiled around me. Were it not for the wits of my first mate, Lionel Lord, and his ability to maintain a course around the funnel, the Island Girl and its three passengers would have been lost.
—PERCIVAL T. SLOANE,
A History of Fog in the Bay of Fundy (1932)