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how did he not come out?! that was totally makeable

;-)

Committed , Or should be ...

check out this footage ,
If you thought it was brave look at the next two waves behind it
"www.facebook.com/clive.richter/videos/vb.608631839/10153466074546840/?t… "

Totally nuts. Can't even imagine sitting in the lineup waiting for one of these beasts to swing your way.

Yeah it is insane. These photos > https://www.swellnet.com/photos/swellnet-sessions/huge-puerto-air-photos give a sense of playing field and dodging those monsters. That rip to the south is out of this world.

Any footage of Brian Conley's area that Bruce Irons is a fan of?

Also - Swellnet question: why can't users comment on the gallery above and others in Swellnet Sessions linked off your homepage?

Lost for words.
These guys are absolute mad men, a different breed of humans.
Something must be not quite right upstairs

Healys a maddog,awesome guts involved ,must have been flogged after that big time and paddled in,very impressive,hope the contest there is something like this.

In a world of over saturation there is still nothing better than that right there.
Please sir can I have some more?

What a charger.....classic pic of a very young 'punk' Healey - social absorbtion surfline

insane cant believe he pulled in. spose it was the best option

Healy is a True waterman,so comfortable in heavy situations.Remember that giant day at cloud break and that fukinn enormous set came thru and he was the guy that got off his board half way up the face and started swimming thru the wave,,too bad if it sucked him over backwards,unafraid hellman.

I always wonder how they even get out there especially seeing the photo's from the air in the other link.

Interesting though that despite all the photo's of waves, clearly from the aerial shots there is some level of devastation in the local community. Is this something that always happens on any big Puerto swell?

Hope more footage comes out soon that didn't look real it was so big! Those clean up sets? How the hell do you deal with that, pucker factor 11

Channel bottoms i think over to the right of where they are surfing is a harbour,sure thats where you get out .

i'd fair dink have a fuck'n heart attack out there...... Does Mark still buzz out on surfing anything under 40 foot? Mark you are definitely the boss mate!

When he pulled in it kinda looked like the wave sucked him backwards. Get in my belly little man.

Where was Mr Jeep?

Craig, can you give a few details on the origins of this monster swell? Was it ex-North Pacific or out of the south?

it was the S swell that they ran Punta Lobos in Chile on.

thing that confounds about Puerto is the almost complete lack of swell decay from far away systems. That offshore canyon has an amazing focussing effect.

So was Healey the only person to catch one yesterday? I haven't seen any footage or pics of anyone else.

there are other canyon big wave beachies around RD.

Was that wave of Healey's bigger than anything paddled into at Punta Lobos or is it just my dodgy eye?

looks like his bd ran out of speed when he was angling up under the lip/barrel.......

zI wonder when the hold the BWWT there how long the heats will be...does not seem to be a lot of waves that actually peel off???

Stu those vests dont stop u diving under thats just a myth that they say .

Yeah its absurb MC . Heard that mentioned about peurto already .re bwt comp.

Stu, or anyone could you point me to a bigger wave ridden at Punta Lobos?

Also remember PE is a beach break and very shallow so the impact on any wipeout is magnified. I have surfed in the 4-6 ft range and even then the beatings were fierce.

think that mark healey did that duck under the lip and slow down as a manouvre to escape the massive closeout ahead of him . its a massive wave and toying with it like he did was incredible and then the escape , was very skilled . the question about if its bigger than punta de lobos comp , dunno,does it matter ? maybe the swell peaked thru the night at chile then peaked in the day in mex . one thing for sure is that chile is closer to the storm so it certainly wasnt a swell dodge . it was from the same swell episode said to be the biggest in years . so one things for sure it was massive along south americas west coast and further north too .

Healy was riding a 9'8" . pics on his instagram ...that wave and the main street of Puerto.

Does it matter Caml? Not to me but didn't you say that was the whole point of it?

just a word on the vests guys........in really big surf...pulling the cord on your vest is not so much to come up...but also to pull the cord a bit early so you get rolled by the whitewater and out of the impact zone.......nothing worse than diving deep and popping up as the next wave lands on ya....getting rolled a 100m is the dream!

true MC, the floaty vest makes you bob like a cork and floating on the surface like that will get you washed in . mark healey interview says he ducked under the lip and jumped off . he also said he had ten more on the head until beaching, so much froth on surface even the vest couldnt float him above it to get clean air . the vest also has a quick release pull cord to dump the air so if you want to dive under the waves really deep and remain in the impact zone then do so . fr76 wat is the point you mean sorry ?

hahaha, I just meant isn't the point of Big Wave surfing to catch the biggest wave>?

I thought that was what you said

Anyone want to put a size on that wave? ...in feet

Stu pretty much what i was thinking ,just saw it again ...fuk me.