"Aqua Alta Surfing": St. Mark's Square on a Wakeboard

Everything happened at the speed of light on Tuesday: just a few minutes after 11 a.m., the high-water mark had reached 1.35 metres, equivalent to a good half metre of water covering St. Mark's Square.

Duncan Zuur's team pulled a compact, 20 horsepower motor winch from its hiding place and placed it under the square's arches. One team member, clad in rubber boots, pulled the winchs cable about 120 metres across the square and pressed one end firmly into the hand of Duncan Zuur, who had taken the opportunity to get into his wakeboarding gear. Four elegant turns later, the event was over prompting by a standing ovation from an astounding crowd of tourists.

And luckily for Duncan, the police didn't even notice.

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[Ssiroja]

AWESOME !!!

[GrowingObsession]

Life is for the living right? ;)

[Jirk4]

@abclukeabc How did he harm it?

At first run, the square was flooded anyway, that's so big deal he slided on the surface of the water. Maybe at the second run he splashed a little bit of water at the sidewalk, like there's no rain and floods anyway.

And the winch is no louder than any other boat coming through the Venice and it was running no longer than 20 seconds.

So once again, what harm was done to the Venice? Except he entertained everyone around at such a boring day

[iampeeay01]

you rock!!! \m/ thanks for sharing this video... =D

[brianator145]

@driaslow: hotsteeze is the shiz

[brianator145]

@driaslow: wait what? is it a website?

[driaslow]

damn i finally landed this. logged it on hotsteeze . com.

[abclukeabc]

@WeAreMontreal He actually did harm my beloved city. He makes moron like you think it's harmless doing something like that. And about the selfish nonsense: who's selfish? The one who wants to preserve the most beautiful place on earth, or the brainless idiot that has no respect for it just to make a fucking youtube video????

[WeAreMontreal]

@abclukeabc Hey relax cabrón, the guy didn't any harm to your beloved city! wishing someone to die of a cancer because he did 20 sec of wakeboard at st-marks square during Acqua Alta is more then crazy. You are the most selfish person I ever seen! You don't even deserve to live in Venice! find something else to do then bug people that enjoy life

[trepattoni]

Welcome to Veniceland....no more respect for this town...

[PIEDEDIPIOMB0]

Mimorti, ma co l'acqua de canal no se ga ciapà el tetano?

Great Weakboarding!

[kosicrist]

mal giro lleva venecia, se van a las profundidades