Home of the biggest surfed wave in the world - Nazare

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Chris & Katie Russell
Mon 12 Jun 2017 14:26
39:35.48N 009:04.74W
 
We sailed down the 35 miles to Nazare - again past long beaches and cliffs to a little port that boasts to being next to the place where the largest surf wave has ever been recorded (30m - 100ft). It is believed that this is due to the swell hitting a deep trench that runs opposite the entrance to the harbour that then sets up a set on the beach by the local headland. We just hoped it would not be like that when we went in. It wasn't.
 
Chatting to the locals they told us that the surfers get towed out by jetski and then the jetskis have to go in and pick them up before they hit the beach following their surf. Scary stuff. They also pointed out tat there had been no fatalities as yet but several big scares when cpr has been given to surfers who have been driven downwards in the undertow and only just survived
 
Take a look at this video
 

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