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He caught a 78 foot (24 m) wave in Praia do Norte, Nazaré, Portugal, after being towed into the wave from a jet ski riding a 6’0 Dick Brewer Tow Board. His record beat the prior world record by over a foot, [ 7 ] but the premature announcement (by others, not by McNamara) proved a source of controversy in the surf world. [ 8 ]
It was the largest recorded ocean wave ever to strike the United States West Coast, and Harrington's report that that wave crested at the height of the lantern and that it buried the area between the lighthouse and the bluff in water which rose to the lighthouse's balcony suggests a possible wave height of 200 feet (61 m). [13]
Until January 28, 1998, when professional surfer Ken Bradshaw was photographed riding a wave with a reported 85-foot (26 m) face, it was believed that Greg Noll's 1969 photo had showed the largest wave ever photographed. During that famous swell in January 1998, several people reported seeing waves with 60–80-foot (18–24 m) faces at KaŹ»ena ...
German surfer Sebastian Steudtner holds the title for the largest wave ever surfed with Guinness World Records and the World Surf League, after catching the 86-foot wave off at in Nazaré off the ...
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An enormous, 58-foot-tall swell that crashed in the waters off British Columbia, Canada, in November 2020 has been confirmed as the largest "rogue" wave ever Once dismissed as mythical, a 60-foot ...
In February 11, 2020, Gabeira set a new Guinness World Record for the Largest wave surfed (unlimited) - female. [13] [14] It was held in WSL Nazaré Tow Surfin contest and the wave measured 22.4 m (73.5 ft). [1] [2] The wave was also the biggest wave surfed by anyone that year. [15] She is the subject of the 2022 documentary film Maya and the ...
Australian surfer Laura Enever can finally celebrate officially breaking a world record for the largest wave ever paddled into by a woman.