Biggest Wave Ever Surfed

1. A 24-year-old Australian man was killed in a horrifying attack by a five meter saltwater crocodile while swimming in front of friends in the Mary River in Australia’s Northern Territory.

2. Australia’s Northern Territory is rife with crocodiles, and one of them made a meal of a local fisherman.

3. Eight years after Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin’s death-by-stingray, a 17-year-old Australian named Corey Jamieson has survived a stingray attack of his own … thanks to Irwin.

4. Tadashi Nakahara, a 41-year old Japanese national, had been living in Ballina in New South Wales, Australia for many years as a surfboard technician. Fond of catching the waves, he often spent his time on Shelly Beach.

5. An Australian extreme sports lover narrowly missed becoming a Darwin Awards nominee when he decided to “surf” on the carcass of a dead whale.

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A selection of the biggest waves shot as typhoon Megi slammed into Taiwan – the biggest crashing waves ever caught on camera?!

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Nazare produces the biggest waves in the world. Waves up to 100 feet (30 meters). These are the biggest waves ever surfed at Nazare.

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Surfers:
Eric Rebiere, Brazil
at Nazaré – 2014 Ride of the Year Entry – Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards

Ross Clarke-Jones, Australia
at Nazare – 2015 Billabong Ride of the Year Entry – XXL Big Wave Awards

Kealii Mamala, Hawaii
at Nazaré – 2015 Billabong Ride of the Year Entry – XXL Big Wave Awards

Carlos Burle, Brazil
at Nazaré 3 – 2014 Ride of the Year Entry – Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards

Benjamin Sanchis, France
at Nazare – 2015 Billabong Ride of the Year Entry – XXL Big Wave Awards

Garett Mcnamara, United States
at Nazare 2 – 2016 Billabong Ride of the Year Entry – WSL Big Wave Awards

Felipe Cesarano, Brazil
at Nazaré – 2014 Ride of the Year Entry – Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards

Andrew Cotton, United Kingdom
at Nazaré 2 – 2014 Ride of the Year Entry – Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards

Nazare’s monster waves attract big wave surfers from all around, but until very recently, the town and its surfing potential was relatively unknown outside Europe. Nazare hit headlines only in November 2011 when Hawaiian surfer Garrett McNamara surfed a record breaking giant wave measuring 78 feet from trough to crest. In January 2013, McNamara returned to Nazare and broke his own record by successfully riding a wave that was estimated to be 100 feet tall. Later in October the same year, Brazilian big-wave hero Carlos Burle rode a wave that appeared to be even bigger. Nazaré on the Atlantic coast has now become a legendary spot in the world of big wave surfing.

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, Nazare. 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