Cruises from Sable Island
Sable Island is a small island in the Atlantic Ocean, 300 km ESE of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is a thin crescent-shaped sandbar, 42 km long and with a maximum width of just over one kilometre. A brief attempt at French colonization at the end of the 16th C using convicts failed. The island was inhabited sporadically by sealers, shipwreck survivors, and salvagers. Read more
The area's frequent fog and sudden strong storms, including hurricanes and nor'easters, have caused over 350 recorded shipwrecks (now all buried by sand). It is often referred to as the Graveyard of the Atlantic. It is continually changing shape through the effects of strong winds and violent ocean storms.