is THIS possible?
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- williamb0
For sure it's real... Just spoke to a friend who works for Gotcha Europe..and i went for luch with one of the few Europeans who has done this, he's clearly insance...The break is teahupoo in Tahiti. Its where Malik, GOTCHA rider, caught the
heaviest wave ever!
- BeachBoy0
I'm sure the place is real, but I have to doubt the photo! I dont know much about tidal activities, but wouldn't the people in the photo have been at the bottom of the wave, not 10-20 seconds earlier? They seem very calm having escaped that crashing down on top of them!?
If someone can explain the swell and how it would start, it could very well put pay to my questioning, but that's my thought!
- mirola0
like totally dude, i'm surfing it right now
- surfito0
its a break called teahopoo in tahity, and it breaks like that, its an outer reef.
the reason why it breaks like that its because the strong swell comes and hits the reef which is extremely shallow, and that causes the wave to break like that.
i dont know how shallow it is down there were the wave is breaking, but around the white whater it must be about waste deep or even less.
you should see a video of it.
- 4cY0
i have a feeling, once safely surfed down there, there is a risk this massive wave will crush you to death on the shallow reef, not?
i am no expert, but..
- surfito0
yeh, but must surfers once theyre surfing there is cause they can surf there.
you can be crushed to death but it isnt that easy, the beach i surf is also a reef break, when i wipe out i never touch the reef (and its just like 2 or 3 feet deep) some times maybe i hit it but it isnt that easy.
like 2 years ago some dood died in teahupoo, he was paddling back to the peak, a set came and a wave grabbed him and sent him head first to the bottom.
- BeachBoy0
I'd body surf tht bitch!