60 Minutes Sports, Season 2013, Episode 3: Anderson Cooper profiles world - record -
holding big wave surfer Garrett McNamara; and Byron Pitts goes all - out in a race designed to inflict pain on its participants.
Not exact matches
One of the north shore's most iconic
surfing spots, crescent shaped Waimea Bay reached the pinnacle of its
big wave fame in the mid-1980s with the inaugural Quicksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau, which has been
held only nine times — conditions have to be perfect to create the enormous swells required to
hold the invitational.
Written by Errant
Surf on 26th October 2012 Tagged in
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Visit Sunset Beach and Waimea Bay, made famous in the 1960s when
big -
wave surfing took
hold here.
My 6.45 AM
surf check on the Outer Reefs of Tuban was showing
wave height to be still
holding, if anthying slighty
bigger than Saturday.
Surfers also use quads in
big hollow
waves, with the back fins placed further back on the board, for extra
hold in steep
waves.