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Title: It’s Official: This Surfer Caught the Largest Wave Ever Ridden
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TB.com
URL Source: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/its ... -the-largest-wave-ever-ridden/
Published: May 13, 2012
Author: Madeleine Morgenstern
Post Date: 2012-05-13 16:46:37 by CZ82
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It’s Official: This Surfer Caught the Largest Wave Ever Ridden Posted on May 12, 2012 at 3:49pm by Madeleine Morgenstern Garret McNamara could only assume the 78-foot wall of water he surfed last year was a world record. This week, officials from the Guinness Book of World Records confirmed it. The 44-year-old’s wild November ride off the shore of Nazare, Portugal beat out the previous world record, set in Southern California in 2008, by more than a foot. A panel of experts examined and measured photographs and video images of the wave to verify it, the U.K. Telegraph reported. McNamara, a Hawaiian native, recalled that it was difficult to control his surfboard as he rode toward some rocks. “If you fall, there’s not much chance of survival,” he said. He said he hadn’t even planned to go surfing that day until is friends convinced him. “They talked me into getting on my board,” McNamara said. “When I got on the board and they pulled me up with tow rope everything just felt right, it was like magic.”
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#1. To: CZ82 (#0)
Tubular! Not too shabby, if you live near the beach. Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
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