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🗓️ 14 February 2025
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0:00.0 | We talked about this briefly earlier, and I still don't know if it's actually going to be the big record. |
0:06.8 | But a 23-year-old from Santa Cruz may have crushed the record for the biggest wave ever surfed. |
0:14.3 | It happened on December 23rd at Mavericks, which is right off the coast here in Half Moon Bay. |
0:22.0 | They have not confirmed its height yet, |
0:25.3 | but they're calling it 108 feet. |
0:28.9 | The record currently is at 86 feet. |
0:31.8 | Oh, my God. |
0:32.8 | So it beat it by a lot, but I'm having trouble seeing how it measures. |
0:38.1 | Again, I don't go out in anything over 10 foot. |
0:41.6 | I already get my ass kicked in 10 foot surf. |
0:45.7 | This is more than 10 times. |
0:47.0 | I'm not even trying to say, like, you know, I couldn't. |
0:51.2 | I wouldn't even be on a boat a million miles away. |
0:54.9 | Does he have to stick the landing for this to qualify? |
0:59.1 | Because really, I mean, any flotsam can be on that 100 feet thing. |
1:02.9 | That's the wave. |
1:04.4 | Damn, it's like the whole ocean is falling on top of him. |
1:07.8 | Yep. |
1:08.7 | Well, if he's six feet, I mean, there's got it. |
1:11.7 | There's 20 of him between the top of that wave and there. |
1:14.6 | It is a lot. |
1:15.6 | There's no question. |
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