Canada High Sea

South of Nova Scotia the Atlantic covers the Scotian Shelf, a broad submarine platform broken by banks and deep basins before it falls away into the ocean. The Nova Scotian Current flows southwestward across these waters, past fishing banks where cod, haddock and pollock have long been sought. Far from the shelter of the coast, ships crossing the shelf must contend with the weather of the open Atlantic as well as the currents that move along its edge.