The World's Biggest Waves: TEAHUPOO

MUSIC: Ｗａｖｅｓ by Steven O’Brien https://soundcloud.com/stevenobrien Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music provided by Music for Creators https://youtu.be/I2evNDljd64 ––– • Contact the artist: steven@steven-obrien.net http://steven-obrien.net/ https://twitter.com/_StevenOBrien_ https://www.facebook.com/stevenobrien... SHIPSTERN BLUFF, Tasmania, Australia DUNGEONS, South Africa CYCLOPS, Australia OURS, Cape Fear, Australia NEW SMYRNA, USA, Florida Cortes Bank Nazaré, Portugal, Where Maya Gabeira almost drowned Jaws, Hawaii The Right, Cow Bombie, Pedra Branca, Australia Punta De Lobos, Chile Belharra, France Punta Galea, Basque Country, Getxo, Spain La Vaca, El Bocal beach, Spain The Cribbar, Newquay, Cornwall, UK, United Kingdom, England Mullaghmore Head, Ireland Aileens, Ireland In November 2011, surfer Garrett McNamara, who resides in Hawai'i, surfed a record-breaking giant wave: 78 feet (23.8 m) from trough to crest, at Nazaré.[7] On 28 January 2013, McNamara returned to the spot and successfully surfed a wave that appeared even larger, but is awaiting an official measurement.[8] Then, on October 28, 2013, Carlos Burle surfed another wave that is currently being scrutinized as possibly the largest wave ever ridden. On that same day, female big-wave surfer Maya Gabeira experienced a near-death wipeout, but was rescued after losing consciousness. Such very high breaking waves form due to the presence of the underwater Nazaré Canyon.[9] The canyon creates constructive interference between incoming swell waves which tends to make the waves much larger. In August 2012, a freak wave killed a 5 year old British girl and her grandfather walking along Salgado Beach.[10]Teahupoʻo (Te-a-hu-po-o, popular pronunciation is CHO-PO[1]) is a village on the south-west coast of the island of Tahiti, French Polynesia, southern Pacific Ocean.[2] It is known for the surf break and heavy, glassy waves offshore, often reaching 2 to 3 m (6.6 to 9.8 ft), and sometimes up to 7 meters (23 feet). It is the site of the annual Billabong Pro Tahiti surf competition, part of the World Championship Tour (WCT) of the Association of Surfing Professionals World Tour surfing circuit and used to be one stop in the World Tour of the International Bodyboarding Association.[3] Bodyboarding pioneers Mike Stewart and Ben Severson were the first to surf Teahupo'o in 1986 and it soon became an underground spot for thrill-seeking bodyboarders. Few professional surfers rode Teahupo'o during the early 1990s and it was only in 1998, at the Gotcha Tahiti Pro, that Teahupo'o became widely recognized as having some of the heaviest waves in the world. On August 17, 2000 Laird Hamilton is credited with surfing the "heaviest wave" ever ridden,[2] documented in the film Riding Giants. In 2003 the late Malik Joyeux successfully rode one of the largest waves ever ridden. On October 31, 2008 surfer Ian Walsh towed the biggest Teahupoʻo wave of the season. Video footage of this ride was later used in a Red Bull energy drink ad campaign seen around the world. Keala Kennelly was the first woman to tow-surf Teahupo'o in May 2005, getting a 10-foot barrel ahead of the Billabong Tahiti Pro contest.[4] This challenging break has been conquered by many top windsurfers, including Jason Polakow and Levi Siver. Yannick Salmon was the first kitesurfer to ride Teahupo'o, however, it was incorrectly written in publications that others had ridden it before him. Jeremie Eloy and Julien Sudrat kitesurfed the wave after Yannick tehaupoo tahiti

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1. Paddle in > Tow in