Talk about having brass ones.
World record
In November 2011, chasing storms and tracking swells paid off for McNamara as he entered the Guinness World Records. He caught a 78 foot (24 m) wave in Nazaré, Portugal after being towed into the wave from a jet ski riding a 6’0 Dick Brewer Tow Board. His record beat the prior world record by over a foot,[7] but the premature announcement (by others, not by McNamara) proved a source of controversy in the surf world.[8] Meanwhile, McNamara continued to search for an even larger wave.
In January 2013, McNamara broke his own world record by surfing an estimated 100-foot (30 m) wave.[9] He also did this off the coast of Nazaré, Portugal.[10]
That looks like macnamara in potugal
Not the same. At all.
The buoy measures the height of a ‘wave’ (think pulse) in the middle of the ocean - NOT near the shore.
HUGE difference!
A pulse like that could, with the correct conditions, create an actual wave of hundreds of feet.
Hopefully the ‘wave’ or ‘pulse’ heads towards Antarctica.
BTW - I was caught in a rogue wave once. Heard it coming (10:00 PM) and saw it due to a bright moon.
RAN LIKE HELL away from it, likely 500 feet, jumped onto a large piece of driftwood and the wave passed by (got very wet from the spray).
Just south two women who had just left a movie and were taking a nice walk on the beach were drowned.