Watch: Monster Mavericks
The North Pacific has fired up in a big way since the start of the Christmas holiday period with the strong El Niño finally bearing its fruits.
While Hawaii has been receiveing its fair share, recent storms have been more focussed towards the Californian coast, with one such swell being the largest in years.
Mavericks was in the tow-only realm with XXL peaks shifting and breaking all over the place.
Tim Bonython flew in for the swell and captrued the historic swell with additional drone footage thanks to Tucker Wooding.
The surfing footage starts around the nineteen minute mark, but if you want to watch the whole video, rewind back to the start.
Comments
Found myself holding my breath on a few of those waves.
Also holding my breath around 18 minutes when 3 people were standing at the bottom of a boat ramp right below a trailered boat that was full of water with whole thing only hanging by the safety chain after it had popped off the tow hitch. Crikey!
Bunch of Barrel Dodgers the lot of them !
(haha)
Wonder if any mad dogs tried to paddle?
Viewing from land got a 'little' hectic as well as shown in this short doco.
Lots of examples here of infragravity waves pushing into the built up areas
I was wondering why they were talking to the camera rather than bailing the water out of the boat, then he said they had no bucket , ... after the whole battery thing. pppppp
Giant Mavs , Bianca backspin was heavy too
I really enjoyed that. Liked the interviews at the start and the music was bearable.
Old Sully got a fucken rinsing!!
Heavy shit but had to laugh when the young female newsreader on channel 9 calmly informed us the waves were 50 meters high, (that's about 164 ft.) Try 50 feet love. The mainstream media always get it wrong.
Wow no bilge pump on their boat. Super risky stuff
Total respect for the bravery but do they prepare their kit thoroughly , nope ! Count me out .
With all do respect Mr. Sully got "Oxicleaned". All the warning signs were their a.) First ski quit working, b.) dead battery, c.) sinking inflatable, d.) Skif/Inflatable captain decides to pack it in...?
Does Bonython write this cokey crap music?
I remember a few years aback that the Half Moon Bay area became a Marine Reserve and therefore no smelly jetskis etc were allowed in.
Are these guys all flaunting the regulations or is it "more of a guideline" sort of rule?