Briton Tom Butler believes he may have broken the world record for surfing the biggest ever wave after successfully riding a huge swell at Nazaré in Portugal on 14 December.
The 29-year-old says the wave was estimated to be more than 100ft tall. The current official record is 80ft, which was set last year by Brazilian Rodrigo Koxa also at Nazaré.
Butler said surfing the wave was like ‘running away from a raging bull’. It is likely he will have to wait for the WSL Big Wave Awards in April 2019 for official confirmation on whether he broke the world record.
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I was going to say looks more like 45 ft or so… it only appears that big to him because he's so low down the wave
"Guardian Sport"… I thought marxist soyboys hated sportball.
The previous record looks much taller than this.
Wow!! Glad to see you're in one piece
Oh please. I could do that.
At least the flailing arms and fast descending part, anyway. I might add a primal scream too.
From the video, looks to be about a 60 ft tall wave. How is it really measured?