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EE_
28th October 2013, 07:25 PM
Balls of Rhino!

Brazilian surfer may have set new World Record after riding 100-foot storm wave off the coast of Portugal
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/10/28/article-2478498-190B325900000578-985_964x704.jpg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yneat_zGm8

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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2478575/Brazilian-surfer-set-new-World-Record-riding-100-foot-storm-wave-coast-Portugal.html#ixzz2j4MQJrs1
milehi
28th October 2013, 08:03 PM
You can't drop in steeper or deeper than this. And in freezing water.
Hitch
28th October 2013, 08:11 PM
You can't drop in steeper or deeper than this. And in freezing water.

I don't think your average person can comprehend how completely insane this video is..
General of Darkness
28th October 2013, 08:54 PM
Wow, that's crazy.
willie pete
28th October 2013, 09:41 PM
I wonder if he's wearing 02 ?
Hitch
28th October 2013, 09:58 PM
I wonder if he's wearing 02 ?

probably wouldn't matter, a wave that big will take your lunch money, regardless..
willie pete
28th October 2013, 10:28 PM
probably wouldn't matter, a wave that big will take your lunch money, regardless..

whatever you say, you're the expert ::)
Hitch
28th October 2013, 10:40 PM
whatever you say, you're the expert ::)

I am an expert at getting my lunch money taken by waves, I will say that. Nobody wipes out better than me.
BrewTech
28th October 2013, 10:58 PM
That was no 100 ft. wave... maybe 40 ft and not nearly as dangerous as many breaks in the world.

World record my ass...
Hitch
29th October 2013, 01:34 AM
That was no 100 ft. wave... maybe 40 ft and not nearly as dangerous as many breaks in the world.

World record my ass...

It's the same spot that McNamara surfed. In fact, almost looks like the exact wave.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5g6I-FOguQ
Glass
29th October 2013, 02:11 AM
And in May 2012 as well

World Record Wave Official (http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?61000-World-Record-Wave-Official&p=607898&viewfull=1#post607898)

Or maybe its the same one. I think it is. Hawaiin Surfer = McNamara?

http://images.theage.com.au/2013/01/30/3991591/af-mcnamara1-20130130112115848135-620x414.jpg

A cracking wave
gunDriller
29th October 2013, 12:54 PM
the big-wave community might be a little slow to jump on this one.

Maya G., one of the top women's big wave surfers, almost drowned in the same session.

Carlos Burle saved her. she is OK.


it's difficult to gauge these larger waves. they need someone with surveyor type tools on the beach to help figure it out.

it's not hard to figure out where the top of the wave is - but the bottom ?

also there is no rule - yet - about how to measure the top of the wave if the bottom is literally below sea level. this happens sometimes when the water is being sucked off the reef.


personally i would like to see a body-surfer or boogie-boarder get the 100' title, and under their own power.

this wave is close but it doesn't look 50% bigger than the obsessively studied 66-67 foot waves from the last 10 years.