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A California surfer shredded a monster wave at Mavericks last week — and may have ridden into the record books.. Alessandro “Alo” Slebir, 23, was surfing with friends on Dec. 23 when he ...
The wave height was estimated by the Mavericks Rescue Team, [16] but has not yet been confirmed by Guinness World Records. Andrew Cotton - In January 2014, Cotton, was towed into an estimated 80-foot (24.3 meters) wave at Praia do Norte. His feat has yet to be ratified by Guinness World Records. [17] António Laureano - On 29 October 2020 ...
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] Meanwhile, McNamara continued to search for an even larger wave. In January 2013, McNamara broke his own world record by surfing an estimated 100-foot (30 m) wave.
Mavericks is a surfing location in northern California outside Pillar Point Harbor, just north of the town of Half Moon Bay at the village of Princeton-by-the-Sea.After a strong winter storm in the northern Pacific Ocean, waves can routinely crest at over 25 ft (8 m) and top out at over 60 ft (18 m).
At the famous Mavericks Beach surf spot, big waves thundering into the California coastline on Thursday attracted surfers and spectators alike to the legendary break 25 miles south of San Francisco.
Waves reached heights of 50 feet Sunday during the Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational in Hawaii that produced epic rides and big wipeouts.
A surfer at Mavericks, one of the world's premier big wave surfing locations. Big wave surfing is a discipline within surfing in which experienced surfers paddle into, or are towed into, waves which are at least 20 feet (6.2 m) high, on surf boards known as "guns" or towboards. [1]
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