Measuring Big Waves

http://www.discoverynews.com When surfers make the news for riding big waves, how do we know how tall those waves actually are? James Williams finds out by asking Bill Sharp, creator of the Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards.

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• giant
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• waves
• surfing
• billabong
• XXL
• huge
• wave
• awards
• mavericks
• hawaii
• jaws
• pipeline

[Uberubert99]

Awesome. But I don't like it when they put annotation links in the video, and when the video finally ends and I want to click it, it is removed.. Not sure why video uploaders always think people want to check out a new video only before the current one is finished

[BigWh0pper]

imagine if someone surfed a tsunami O.O

[cotolenguita]

1:14 AWSOME!

[dominick1290]

lol the guy at 1:18

[oscarman2]

@BigWh0pper tsunamis are like fast tidal surges  ...... not like an ocean wave that is surfable, cool idea though

[Julianuribe23]

@BigWh0pper You can't surf a tsunami, its a surge of water

[SuperCrounch]

Surfing rogue waves XD

[Bethalaine]

@BigWh0pper A nice idea, but impossible. Tsunamis travel at hundreds of miles per hour. xD

[Surfboss77]

So much for all the cavemen that still insist on measuring a wave by the back. You ever rode the back of a wave? I didn't think so. Hawaiian size=look at the face, subtract 50% and add some bullshit for flavor!

[superhornet69]

Laird Hamilton is on record statting that he plans on being the first person in documented history to ride a 100 ft. wave. If there is one person on this planet that can do it and live, it is definitely Laird Hamilton. Check out his book, too.

[Qewtful]

@tarrask5142 dude yes! just noticed that it's insane

[iamcool345]

@cancantim he was just using that (5 10) as an example