Biggest Wave Ever Surfed

The Brazilian Navy’s alert for rough seas in Rio de Janeiro gave the green light for the sixth edition of Itacoatiara Big Wave surf event, attracting national and international surfers to compete in the powerful waves over 13 feet of Itacoatiara beach

The one-day main event had 16 tow-in surfing teams made up of two competitors in each team, alternating between surfing and driving the team’s jet ski. Before the main event final, the competition also had a round of tow-in mixed men and women teams and bodyboarders.

Surfers used to Portugal’s Nazaré massive waves, like Pedro Scooby, Lucas Chumbo, and others, didn’t snub the smaller but violent waves in Itacoatiara.

“First time in Itacoatiara is challenging. To line up the right one (wave), you really got to find the diamond in the rough, for sure. It’s a really hard. It seems a bit like Nazaré (Portugal) and Puerto Escondido (Mexico) mixed together,” said Italian surfer Francisco Porcella.

Niterói is a city located west of Rio de Janeiro that is home to several iconic wave-riding spots, one of them being Itacoatiara Beach known for its powerful beach break waves.

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Entering August, it has become a routine thing every year, Uluwatu waves become bigger than the previous months. In this video there are surfers who managed to get through the rolling waves and there were also those who didn’t and they were rolled up in the big waves with wave heights of 2.5 meters to more than 3 meters. This surfing video was recorded using a DJI Mini 3 drone with original background sound recorded around the video recorder.

0:00 Intro
0:27 Hit By Big Waves
03:10 Rolled By Big Waves
04:54 Surfing The Pipeline
05:20 Surfing The Big Waves
05:48 Surfer Jumps Over The Wave
07:00 Surfing Foamy Waves
08:13 Single Wave Surfing

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