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Very Big Wave

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Created by Piros > 9 months ago, 12 Jun 2012
Piros
QLD, 7235 posts
12 Jun 2012 11:22AM
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Details are still a bit blurry, but according to eye-witness accounts, big-wave hellions Rusty Long and Grant “Twiggy” Baker have broken the 100-foot barrier, catching and surfing a sky-scraper-size wave off the coast of Chile's Isla Alejandra Selkirk, several hundred miles off the coast of mainland Chile.


PottyMullet
NSW, 92 posts
12 Jun 2012 11:25AM
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Insane

mikeman
QLD, 692 posts
12 Jun 2012 11:40AM
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Classic! I had a feeling that these waters would produce the 100ft wave they have been searching for all of these years. Twiggy was at Cloudbreak on that big day last week so am wondering if he kept going across the Pacific to hook into this. Any more details Rob?

mikeman
QLD, 692 posts
12 Jun 2012 11:47AM
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Turns out it was just an April fools joke (2009) in Surfer mag!
www.ocregister.com/2009/04/01/rusty-longs-unbelievable-100-foot-wave/

Piros
QLD, 7235 posts
12 Jun 2012 12:20PM
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Yeah sorry just found out it's not real , I thought it was....

teatrea
QLD, 4177 posts
12 Jun 2012 1:02PM
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Looked like a couple that size coming through Currumbin Beach , massive.

Warddy
QLD, 77 posts
12 Jun 2012 3:10PM
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Piros said...

Yeah sorry just found out it's not real , I thought it was....


Yeah the track shows it would be a paddle on, I dont think so Doh!

DavidJohn
VIC, 17569 posts
12 Jun 2012 7:16PM
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I thought it was a bit suss when the guy on the inside looks like he's going left on a right hander..

DJ

Daneli
QLD, 1538 posts
12 Jun 2012 8:52PM
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DavidJohn said...

I thought it was a bit suss when the guy on the inside looks like he's going left on a right hander..

DJ


Some of the LB crew are experts at that.

62mac
WA, 24860 posts
12 Jun 2012 6:59PM
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Daneli said...

DavidJohn said...

I thought it was a bit suss when the guy on the inside looks like he's going left on a right hander..

DJ


Some of the LB crew are experts at that.


Just one mate just one

cushion
7 posts
13 Jun 2012 6:43PM
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I feel scared just looking at the pic's



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