Biggest Wave Ever Surfed

Compilation of the best and craziest waves surfed at Shipstern Bluff

ShipStern Bluff (also known as Devil’s Point or simply Shippies) is a globally-renowned big wave surfing location on the south eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia, on the Tasman Peninsula

Surfers in this video

Alex Zawadzki, Benny Richardson, Danny Griffiths, Ignacio Salazar, James Hollmer, James McKean, Laurie Towner, Marti Paradisis, Michael Brennan, Mikey Brennan, Pato Teixeira, James Hick,

Videos from: Verizon wipeout of the year award, xxl ride of the year entry, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018

Some of the more notable surfers who have tackled Ship Stern Bluff include:

Kelly Slater
Kieren Perrow
Ross Clarke-Jones
Andy Irons
Richie Vaculik
Mick Fanning

Biggest waves surfed at Shipsterns Bluff Tasmania. Massive barrells and wipeouts…

Big wave surfing is the ultimate celebration of extreme surfing. Challenging deadly waves in harsh weather and ocean conditions takes a very serious approach.
Big wave surfers are not interested in performance. Forget perfect cutbacks, stunning floaters or breathless aerial antics. The profile of a big wave rider is the result of several unparalleled personal characteristics.

Fear is always present in a 50-foot wave. Fear is the best way of managing the risk of paddling for a huge wave face, which doesn’t tell you what is going to happen and how it is going to break.

Monster waves tend to move quickly and force surfers to get away of the powerful whitewater. Big waves are lethal even for the most experienced extreme riders. The best big wave surf spots in the world have claimed several lives in the last decades.

Malik Joyeux, Sion Milosky, Moto Watanabe, Mark Foo, Donnie Solomon, Todd Chesser, Dickie Cross and Peter Davi have passed away in extreme surfing conditions. Wipeouts, severe coral reef injuries and drowning are the most common causes of death in big wave surfing.

The pioneers of big wave surfing started to eye impossible killer rides in the 1940’s. In the 1960’s, waves like Pipeline and Waimea increased the popularity of paddling into new wave heights. Going over the falls was the daily menu.

Laird Hamilton is the first professional big wave surfer. The waterman from Maui defies fast, hollow and high waves with a full-time training and previous preparation. Hamilton, the father of tow-in surfing, takes on the entire big wave spots of the Hawaiian Islands, in helicopter style.

Laird was born with the gene of defying danger. He designs and prepares his own surfboards and wetsuits. Wherever heavy waves break, Hamilton is there to ride them: Mavericks, Cortes Bank, Dungeons.

In 2000, Laird Hamilton surfs what is considered the heaviest wave of all time. The “Millennium Wave” was ridden in the reef of Teahupoo, in Tahiti, and set a new standard for big wave surfing.

Garrett McNamara is one of the toughest big wave challengers. After riding a spectacular 78-foot wave in Nazaré, Portugal, the Hawaiian waterman entered the Guinness World Records with the biggest wave ever surfed.

The 55 best big wave surfers of all time is an exclusive extreme surfing club. From Jaws to Mavericks, Puerto Escondido, Punta Lobos, Ghost Trees, Belharra, Shipstern Bluff and Todos Santos, these riders have set up a new scale in the definition of giant waves. They are:

Al Mennie
Andy Irons
Anthony Tashnick
Ben Wilkinson
Bob Pike
Brock Little
Buzzy Trent
Carlos Burle
Chris Bertish
Danilo Couto
Darrick Doerner Darryl Virostko
Dave Kalama
Dave Wassel
Eddie Aikau
Frank Solomon
Gabriel Villaran
Garrett McNamara
George Downing
Brad Gerlach
Gerry Lopez
Grant Twiggy Baker Grant Washburn
Greg Long
Greg Noll
Ian Walsh
Jamie Sterling
Jay Moriarty
Jeff Clark
Jeff Rowley
Jose Angel
João de Macedo
Kai Barger Keala Kennely
Ken Bradshaw
Ken Colllins
Koby Abberton
Kohl Christensen
Laird Hamilton
Laurie Towner
Mark Foo
Mark Healey
Mark Mathews
Mark Visser Maya Gabeira
Mike Parsons
Nathan Fletcher
Pat Curren
Peter Mel
Ramon Navarro
Richie Fitzgerald
Ross Clarke-Jones
Shane Dorian
Sion Milosky
Zach Wormhoudt

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From Safari to Surf We have been enjoying this country.

We spent a week plus in Medigama and then moved on to Yala for safari. On our way up to the air port we stopped overnight in Galle Fort.

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On any given day, you can park in front of Tanner Rozunko’s San Clemente beach path and see a collection of wetsuits sprawled across the grass. But venture further down the side of his house and you run into broken guitars, a decade-old quarterpipe ramp, an atrium filled with a drum kit, some amps, more guitars, some skateboard decks, and a host of instrument cords. Rozunko sits in the corner as we visit, barely raising his head, playing tunes. I pose the question out loud, “If you could be any Beatle, which one would you be?” It’s a throwaway question, because in my own head, I have the scenario played out. Tanner is George. The thinker of the group. The wise one. The one leading the crew, the one turning people on to new experiences, music, thoughts.

“Oh, I would definitely be Tanner Ringo Starr. The least talented of the group.”

“But Ringo was a genius drummer, no?” I ask.

“No, Pete, Ringo was awful. I think Paul was even asked by a reporter once if he was the best drummer in the world, and Paul answered, ‘He’s not even the best drummer in the Beatles,’” Tanner answers in the most monotone of responses. As if he was responding in his sleep, as if my question itself is potentially the most off-putting question to ever have been posed: the idea of trying to put him, Kolohe, Luke Davis, and Ian Crane into a Beatles setting. Then Tanner breaks into a chuckle. A contagious laugh.

His latest edit is untitled. And no, that’s not the name. There is no name. And while we tried to pitch Tanner into naming something that could possibly tie into his musical tastes, say, the “Maserati” track by the ’80’s band Crime, Tanner wasn’t feeling it. “I really don’t care about naming this video edit,” he says. “I think people just want to see surfing and listen to a cool song. No lifestyles. No b-roll. Just cut out all the dumb shit that most people really don’t care about.”

This is Tanner’s first release in two years after battling a series of knee injuries that turned into a major mental barrier for him. And the result is sweet music to the ears, and the eyes.

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