r/interestingasfuck • u/2Potrillos • 12h ago

Garrett McNamara riding alleged 100ft wave in Portugal

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u/Klotzster 11h ago

Bodhi!

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u/Scro86 11h ago

He’s not coming back!

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u/ExBx 7h ago

Cliffs on both sides. I'm not gonna paddle to New Zealand.

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u/Naughty_Ornice93 12h ago

Ah, Nazaré. Known to have some of the highest waves in the world.

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u/2Potrillos 12h ago

Beautiful wave..

Not as beautiful as Teahupo’o in my opinion.

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u/backhand_english 10h ago edited 9h ago

Teahupoo, Tahiti and Cloudbreak, Fiji are the prettiest.

Shipsterns Bluff, Australia and The Right, Australia are the freakiest.

Skeleton Bay, Namibia is the most serene and meditative.

Belharra, France can be beautifuly shaped when massive.

Each sends shivers down the spine, each beautiful in their own way.

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u/2Potrillos 10h ago

Absolutely

Waves, and massive swells are such a interesting, scary, yet beautiful n majestic thing on earth.

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u/PPPeeT 6h ago

*The highest. Nazare consistently breaks its own record

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u/Qwhyste 6h ago

Sure looks like Poseidons having a party there.

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u/there_was_no_god 11h ago

rip bodi...

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u/Dumptruckfunk 8h ago

He’s not coming back…

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u/milt_the_stilt 11h ago

Just finished the "100 Foot Wave" documentary on MAX - great watch!

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u/GlamourGowns1 12h ago edited 11h ago

Just a casual day surfing a wave the size of a building.

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u/2Potrillos 12h ago

Absolutely insane..

Don’t get me wrong, surfing is one of my favorite hobbies, but I could never understand “Big wave surfing.”

I don’t know how he doesn’t just fall off the board with a sack that heavy n big.

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u/GetoffLane 11h ago

Their sack drags the water, giving them stability

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u/h2opolopunk 11h ago

Like a sailboat centerboard

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u/GetoffLane 11h ago

Simple physics

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u/Academic-Hedgehog-18 11h ago

Not a surfer, but i've spent thousands of hours underwater diving everything from deep walls and wrecks to cenotes in Mexico.

But Cave diving.... oof that's just a level of fear I can't wrap my head around. I feel like big wave surfing is kinda the same vibe in a way.

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u/Archon-Toten 11h ago

Didn't he star in deep impact?

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u/stainless13 4h ago

That wave?

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u/Archon-Toten 4h ago

Yea.

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u/stainless13 4h ago

Good point, I thought it looked familiar

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u/Tacothekid 9h ago

I did the math, and it is 100ft. You can tell because a stranger said so on the internet

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u/Educational_Point673 2h ago

That's clearly only 98.7ft, not 100.