If you’ve ever wondered what kind of aquatic life surrounds the Bruce Power site in Tiverton, a husband and wife documentarian team have a live-stream underwater event coming up.
On Earth Day, April 22nd, Yvonne Drebert and Zach Melnick are hosting an underwater live stream from one of the Great Lakes’ most visually striking and least-accessible environments: the warm, crystal-clear waters surrounding the Bruce Power nuclear generating station on Lake Huron.
Back in 2023, the duo located the shipwreck the Africa in Lake Huron.
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Drebert is looking forward to piloting advanced underwater robots explore the underwater ecosystem in the Bruce Power area, noting, “It’s one of our favourite places to explore – because it’s always jam-packed with fish and wildlife.”
Drebert says they’ll be joined by fish biologist Dr. Nicholas Mandrak and Bruce Power scientist Dr. Cherie-Lee Fietsch, where they’ll explore a thriving underwater “fish city” where more than a dozen species gather.
She says viewers can expect encounters with ancient bowfin, century-old bigmouth buffalo, schools of smallmouth bass, and massive aggregations of gizzard shad drawn to the plant’s warm outflow.
She says, “In this dynamic ecosystem, anything can appear, from walleye and catfish to diving birds or even beaver.”
“There’s so many fish there we never know who we’re going to see, so it’s generally pretty exciting. There’s very few places in the Great Lakes you can put down a robot and be guaranteed to see a fish, but this is one of them,” says Drebert.
She says they’ll be taking questions during the roughly hour-long livestream as well.
The livestream is set for 10 a.m. April 22nd. You will be able to find it at https://inspiredplanet.ca/hidden-below-live