If you want to break the world record for biggest wave surfed, there's only one place to go, and it's in Portugal. Praia do Norte, Nazar , to be exact. It also helps to go during a violent storm that has already killed 11 people. And almost killed Brazillian surfer Maya Gabeira, who tried to do what fellow countryman Carlos Burle amazingly pulled off. Here' what he had to say about it.
"It was luck. We never know when we will be catching the wave. I still hadn't surfed any wave and everyone had already had their rides. Maya almost died. For me, it was a big adrenaline moment to get back there after what happened."
Both Gabeira and Burle's rides were part of the . Here's the wave that almost drowned Gabeira
Carlos Burle's wave, although not officially the biggest wave every successfully ridden, is estimated to be near 100ft, which is around the size of current record holder, Garrett McNamarra, who towed-in to a 78ft monster also at Praia do Norte. After this video surfaced of a surfaced last week, we can definitively say SportsGrid will not be a threat to Burle's new record anytime soon.
Here's video of the previous record.
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