The owner of the giant Martin Mars water-bomber decided strut his ship around this afternoon at 3PM by dumping 27,000 kilograms of water off at Vancouver’s Canada Place Harbor.

This massive flying boat drew in quite the crowd not only at the harbor but the office as well while we all debated if this thing was really worth waiting for. When I first looked upon the crowd I was convinced that they were nothing but shrubs and decor out on the deck. I was wrong. Turns out the Martin Mars water-bombing was advertised all over the 24 newspaper this morning. The cops and traffic authorities had to line up at certain ports as we waited for the seabuses and helicopters to clear the way so that this water bomber could grace us with its presence.

After much anticipation, the Martin Mars made it’s first appearance. As this tank began to swirl around in the harbor, we compared it to the size of the seabuses and other vessels in the harbor. We quietly discussed how it probably wasn’t worth waiting around for and how everyone should probably get back to work.

After showing off for about 10 minutes. It swooped down for a couple of minutes to, I assume, gather water before it flew west and disappeared shortly before it reappeared and dropped the 27,000 kilograms of water in front of the crowd. Just in a matter of seconds it disappeared for good and like that it was over and really probably wasn’t worth waiting for. But hey, I managed to snap a couple of photos for this new photo blog entry.