[A Navy Vet]

If the women can qualify and go for it, more power to them, as long as they're not men in drag.

I've noticed that no women wants to take on Nazare, Portugal...the biggest wave in the world. The men surfers have got to have a death wish to take on that monster. You think Mavericks and Waimea are big, they are shore break compared to Nazare.

[dayglored]

> I've noticed that no women wants to take on Nazare, Portugal...the biggest wave in the world..

Beg to differ. Wikipedia's article on the Nazare Canyon has this:

"On February 11, 2020, at Praia do Norte in Nazaré, Portugal, Maya Gabeira broke the record for the biggest wave ever surfed by a woman on a record-setting wave measuring 73.5 feet (22.4 meters), besting her own previous world record of 68 feet. The 73.5-foot wave she surfed on February 11 in Nazaré was the largest wave surfed by anyone that year, earning Gabeira the WSL’s 2020 women’s XXL Biggest Wave Award. By contrast, that year’s men’s XXL Biggest Wave Award winner, Kai Lenny, rode a 70-foot wave."