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Any waves like this in Baja

DianaT - 11-9-2011 at 09:22 AM

For all you hard core surfers------

May be the largest wave ever ridden

Really a beautiful thing to see.

Ateo - 11-9-2011 at 02:24 PM

I saw video of that this morning. I think this is one of the biggest ever ridden. Todos Santos Island is capable of something this size if the swell and direction cooperate.

woody with a view - 11-9-2011 at 06:34 PM

that isn't surfing, it's surviving. i wouldn't do either on that one. one of these days someone is gonna die, again....

RIP, Mark Foo.

edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqNdFxH4RHk

[Edited on 11-10-2011 by woody with a view]

BooJumMan - 11-9-2011 at 06:43 PM

These guys are nucking futs. I can't even comprehend it. I wouldn't even be able to breathe if I was on a boat next to that thing breaking.

DianaT - 11-9-2011 at 06:52 PM

While beautiful to watch, I also thought they were crazy, but I don't surf!

DENNIS - 11-9-2011 at 07:03 PM

..........................................................Insane.....................................................

JESSE - 11-9-2011 at 07:14 PM

I don't think its the biggest, huge, but not the biggest.

Skipjack Joe - 11-9-2011 at 07:51 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by woody with a view
that isn't surfing, it's surviving. i wouldn't do either on that one. one of these days someone is gonna die, again....

RIP, Mark Foo.

edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqNdFxH4RHk

[Edited on 11-10-2011 by woody with a view]


We lost another surfer this past winter at Mavericks. There are countless other close calls out there as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw1zrNgZtu4&feature=related

Ateo - 11-9-2011 at 08:13 PM

Garret McNamara is committed to this type of stuff. It paid off recently. Everyone knows this is what he wants - and if he dies - that's his own fault for doing what he does. He knows this is a possibililty. We should let people do what they want to. Mark Foo knew this and so did Sion.

[Edited on 11-10-2011 by ateo]

[Edited on 11-10-2011 by ateo]

Ateo - 11-9-2011 at 08:17 PM

http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/gmac-goes-xxl_62342/

Great video. Wait thru advertisement.

DianaT - 11-9-2011 at 08:19 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
Quote:
Originally posted by woody with a view
that isn't surfing, it's surviving. i wouldn't do either on that one. one of these days someone is gonna die, again....

RIP, Mark Foo.

edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqNdFxH4RHk

[Edited on 11-10-2011 by woody with a view]


We lost another surfer this past winter at Mavericks. There are countless other close calls out there as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw1zrNgZtu4&feature=related


Sad---always sad.

Years ago, I worked with the wife of a Navy pilot. She was a psychologist. She said that every time a pilot was lost, her husband and the other pilots always spent a lot of time figuring out why it would never happen to them. They always found that it was pilot error and an error they would never make.

She said that it was what kept them going because if they had to admit that it could also happen to them, they would probably never fly again.

I just wonder if this also applies to those who engage in sports at their extremes. Just wondering.

BornFisher - 11-9-2011 at 08:27 PM

With that one behind it, that would have been a long hold down. Scuba gear needed!
But those tow ins @ Jaws seem bigger, or just longer drops.
Huge though, just huge!

woody with a view - 11-9-2011 at 08:30 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by ateo
Garret McNamara is committed to this type of stuff. It paid off recently. Everyone knows this is what he wants - and if he dies - that's his own fault for doing what he does. He knows this is a possibililty. We should let people do what they want to. Mark Foo knew this and so did Sion.

[Edited on 11-10-2011 by ateo]

[Edited on 11-10-2011 by ateo]


agreed. just adding some perspective for the non-gill breathers among us.....

BajaNomad - 11-9-2011 at 08:50 PM

Isla Todos Santos... 2010


BajaNomad - 11-9-2011 at 08:57 PM




BajaGeoff - 12-29-2011 at 02:12 PM

I was lucky to be able to watch this contest at Todos Santos from a boat in the channel. The 2012 contest is just around the corner....if the waves get big enough sometime in January or February, they will run it!

Quote:
Originally posted by BajaNomad
Isla Todos Santos... 2010


Barry A. - 12-29-2011 at 02:53 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by DianaT
Quote:
Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
Quote:
Originally posted by woody with a view
that isn't surfing, it's surviving. i wouldn't do either on that one. one of these days someone is gonna die, again....

RIP, Mark Foo.

edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqNdFxH4RHk

[Edited on 11-10-2011 by woody with a view]


We lost another surfer this past winter at Mavericks. There are countless other close calls out there as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw1zrNgZtu4&feature=related


Sad---always sad.

Years ago, I worked with the wife of a Navy pilot. She was a psychologist. She said that every time a pilot was lost, her husband and the other pilots always spent a lot of time figuring out why it would never happen to them. They always found that it was pilot error and an error they would never make.

She said that it was what kept them going because if they had to admit that it could also happen to them, they would probably never fly again.

I just wonder if this also applies to those who engage in sports at their extremes. Just wondering.


True for some of us, Diana. My Dad, a Navy Pilot, was killed at age 29-----pilot error!!! I flew commercially for years, part of that time with the National Park Service as a Law Enforcement Pilot, but at age 36 I concluded that it was possibly "just a matter of time", and that was not fair to my wife and 2 kids, so I reluctantly gave it up-------never have flown again. For me it was a "duh" moment-------I have never since regretted the decision.

To each his own, as they say, but to me the anguish we cause others is just not worth the thrill of flying.

Barry

MMc - 12-29-2011 at 03:41 PM

Having spent a lot of time doing high risk actives in the name of fun we passed on having kids. I didn't want my kid to grow-up without a father and I wasn't going to give up the fun.
When you take on these actives you accept the risk and the outcome.

big wave

captkw - 12-29-2011 at 08:00 PM

WOW !! wow!! I have done a lot of surf charter's on my little cat's and a lot of tow in's,,witch's rock...C.Rica....ollie's point.NIC..,,big flat..shelter cove..mavrick's..the second to last contesT...and some other's,,but not the BAR,off wash.. damn,,HOLY SH-T,,,that's a big wave and not a rouge !! :o:o:o K&T..changing me pantalonee's or somthing like that !!:lol::lol: ...oh,,,thank's

Bob H - 12-30-2011 at 11:19 AM

I've often heard of the big waves out off Isla Todos Santos... a surfer pays to get towed out there by a jet ski, right?

Man, those waves are big and beautiful!

magentawave - 11-23-2012 at 11:04 PM

That huge wave at Todos Santos island is at the spot known as "Killers" and its the only place I have ever surfed in my life where I thought I was going to die...and it was only a foot or two overhead that day!