“The energy and the power that the waves have is something from another world, it’s magic.”
. Another wave landed the Brazilian the women’s world record for the largest wave ever surfed—and a third broke that record, setting a new one.
No one attempted the giant swells of winter—at least not until American surfer Garrett McNamara, at the urging of dedicated locals, came to investigate in 2010. “As soon as I walked up to the lighthouse, I saw the biggest waves I’d ever seen,” he says, but conditions were terrible. “It was like, OK, this is going to be amazing as soon as we get the right wind.” He studied the waves and then rode a record-breaking, 78-foot-tall monster in 2011.
Before getting towed in by Jet Ski, surfers must put on special gear to survive the cold, falls, and getting pinned under waves.
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