Big-wave surfing has become ingrained in European surf culture — epitomized in 2011, when Garrett McNamara set a world record for surfing a 78-foot monster at Nazaré, Portugal. In light of Nazaré being added to the 2016/2017 Big Wave Tour, we explored other European big waves and the hazards surfers face tackling these vast mountains of water.
The rococo brilliance of a cresting wave that lures us in the larger it becomes is deceptive. You’re unlikely to be attacked by a shark, yet you’ve still got plenty of hazards (as ever when surfing big waves) in Europe … More
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