Biggest Wave Ever Surfed

Portuguese Alex Botelho in Praia do Norte, Nazaré – Portugal, during the Big Wave session of January 6, 2018.

Portuguese Big Wave Surfer Alex Botelho, rides the “Bomb” of the day during an intense Big Wave Session in Praia do Norte, Nazaré – Portugal, it was a spectacular giant wave, carved in white lines due to the heavy wind conditions. The action took place this Saturday, January 6, 2018.

The session was filled with intense wipeouts, broken boards, and capsized jet skis, fortunately no serious injuries were reported. Alex Botelho was the last one in the water when he got the wave in the video, the rest of the crew of about 12 big wave surfers from all corners of the globe, were all already out on the beach and it included names like Lucas Chumbo, Francisco Porcella, Mick Corbet, Hugo Vau, Jarryd Foster, Pedro Calado, Othmane Choufani and others.

Botelho belongs to a new generation of Portuguese Big Wave Surfers that are making a name in the sport, including big names like António de Macedo, Hugo Vau, Nic Von Rupp, António Silva among others.

Praia do Norte beach, near the fishing village of Nazaré, has become famous for huge waves since Hawaiian surfer Garrett McNamara set a then record in 2011 for the largest wave ever surfed when he rode a 78-foot wave.
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Surfer: Alex Botelho (PT)
Location: Praia do Norte, Nazaré – Portugal
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Crazy Surfer Rides The Biggest Wave Ever Surfed…
Mike Parsons (born March 13, 1965, in California) is an American professional surfer and surfing coach.
Parsons was raised in Laguna Beach, California and began surfing when he was six-years-old. In 1983, he earned second place in the Junior Division of the United States Surfing Championships.
In 2001, Parsons was towed into a 66-foot wave at Cortes Bank, CA, for which he was awarded $66,000 the highest prize ever awarded in the history of professional surfing. This money was awarded by the Billabong XXL competition which paid tribute to the biggest waves ridden each year. Parsons also surfed a 64-foot wave during competition at the Jaws break on the north shore of Maui. It was filmed by helicopter and used as the opening scene of the 2003 film Billabong Odyssey. A usually uncredited clip of this sequence has gone on to become a viral video.
Parsons later broke his record on January 5, 2008, at Cortes Bank, when he was photographed surfing a wave that the Billabong XXL judged to be 77 feet, which put him in the Guinness Book of World Records, officially, for biggest wave ever surfed. Nearly 4 years later Garrett McNamara improved on this record with a 78-foot wave off Nazaré, Portugal on November 1, 2011.
In 2011, Parsons became the full-time coach for surfer Kolohe Andino.
On January 20, 2013, Parsons suffered a broken C7 vertebra in his neck and nearly drowned while surfing triple-overhead surf at Ocean Beach, a beach break in San Francisco, California. Parsons was able to return to surfing four months later.
Parsons was inducted into the Surfer’s Hall of Fame in Huntington Beach, California in 2008.
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