Garrett McNamara rides 90 Foot Wave

[Doomsday101]

World Record

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[YosemiteSam]

I saw this last night. That is as bad as free climbing.

Just plain dumb. He said he was going to try and ride a bigger wave too. He will ride it right into a box.

That much water surely weights more than a 10 jumbo jets. (about 150-180 tons each)

 

[Doomsday101]

I saw this last night. That is as bad as free climbing.

Just plain dumb.

It is what they do.

 

[Temo]

It is what they do.

Probably what Hemmingway would have said.

/The Young Man and the Sea

 

[CowboyWay]

Brass

 

[JohnnyHopkins]

I could be the first to break my face, so I had better not try.

 

[Kangaroo]

Pretty darn cool

 

[Doomsday101]

I could be the first to break my face, so I had better not try.

There are a few thousands who beat you to it.

Here are just a few

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[Rynie]

I didn't realize surfers get that messed up when they fall.

 

[Doomsday101]

I didn't realize surfers get that messed up when they fall.

Those waves and the power behind them will break a surf board in half and mess you up and in some cases cost you your life

 

[Rynie]

Those waves and the power behind them will break a surf board in half and mess you up and in some cases cost you your life

I imagine! I just never thought of it that way.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

Saltwater weighs about 8.5 pounds per gallon and there are about 264 gallons per cubic meter. While it isn't a solid and fluid dynamics change when you add air to the mix, i.e. water falling from the crest of a wave, being at the bottom of that wave when the crest falls has enough force to crush your body. Wrong place, wrong time, and they notify your next of kin.

<-----Quasi expert on NaCl H2O

 

[jimmy40]

I saw this last night. That is as bad as free climbing.

oh yeah?

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[SaltwaterServr]

oh yeah?

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Two words. Rhymes with "duck fat".

 

[realtick]

You can't imagine the sheer power and energy that are in waves that size. I remember going boogey boarding in Santa Cruz and thinking I was gonna die after getting munched by just a 7-8 foot wave.

 

[jimmy40]

Two words. Rhymes with "duck fat".

:laugh1: I've never surfed in my life but I'd try that wave blindfolded before you'd get me to try to free climb.

 

[Hostile]

That wave is huge, but it doesn't look 90 feet huge to me. Unless they measure wave height some other way.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

That wave is huge, but it doesn't look 90 feet huge to me. Unless they measure wave height some other way.

They're measured from the deepest part of the trough to the highest point on the crest. I paused it at 19 seconds and measured it on my screen at the far left part of the viewing pane. I got a height of 9.5 centimeters on my screen.

At that same point the surfer appears to be standing straight up on the board. He measures 7 millimeters on my screen. Figure him to be 6' for sake of comparison. 95/7=13.57 x 6 feet = 81 feet.

About as accurate as a shotgun at 100 meters, so take it for what it's worth. Then again we can't see the bottom of the trough.

 

[DFWJC]

I didn't realize surfers get that messed up when they fall.

A powerful 6-7 foot wave can snap your neck like a twig...let alone a mountain like that.

 

[Hostile]

They're measured from the deepest part of the trough to the highest point on the crest. I paused it at 19 seconds and measured it on my screen at the far left part of the viewing pane. I got a height of 9.5 centimeters on my screen.

At that same point the surfer appears to be standing straight up on the board. He measures 7 millimeters on my screen. Figure him to be 6' for sake of comparison. 95/7=13.57 x 6 feet = 81 feet.

About as accurate as a shotgun at 100 meters, so take it for what it's worth. Then again we can't see the bottom of the trough.

Thanks.