When the hurricane Epsilon swell arrived in Nazare, Portugal last week, 18-year-old professional surfer and local António Laureano was ready. Join António, along with an international crew of big wave surfing’s elite, as they face the ‘Swell of Century’ in Nazare 2020: The Beast Awakens.
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Surfer Conor Maguire has claimed what may be Ireland’s largest ever swell it was almost on his doorstep at Mullaghmore in County Sligo.
The area, which generally produces waves of 6-9 metres (20-30ft) in height, was hit by a rare coincidence of conditions: the swell from Hurricane Epsilon on top of a mid-Atlantic depression which produced waves breaking almost a mile out and touching, perhaps, 18 metres in height
“I always thought that the day would come where we would see a huge huge swell with clean offshore winds.
Since I remember looking at weather and storm maps Ive never ever seen a forecast of conditions like this and Mother Nature delivered some of the craziest cleanest waves ever seen at Nazaré.
A day for the history books, swells like this happen very few times in a lifetime.
So happy to witness this day and see everyone back to shore safe.” – – Nic Von Rupp
SURFERS: Sebastian Steutner, Pedro Scooby, Maya Gabeira, Justin Dupont, Sergio Cosme and Caio Vaz