The annual event period for the Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards presented by Monster Energy coincided with the end of the Northern Hemisphere winter last Saturday – but a last-minute off-season swell slamming Tahiti has turned the competition upside down with a fresh influx of stunning big wave images. The largest waves seen there in three years (and some of the heaviest tubes ever photographed) heaved across the legendary reef at Teahupoo on March 17, scraping in under today’s final deadline for entering images into the XXL event.
For the first time in the ten-year history of the Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards … Details
A pair of Kiwis are celebrating after conquering some of the biggest waves ever seen at one of the world’s deadliest surf breaks in Tahiti.
Doug Young, 33, and Sam Hawke, 18, took one look at a surf report and flew from Dunedin and Christchurch to the infamous Teahupo’o break to catch the monster waves.
“We knew it was going to be the mac-daddy.”Â
Surfers regard Teahupo’o as the heaviest and deadliest wave in the world. Big ocean swells break onto a very shallow coral reef.
The pair slept on the beach in their board bags before waking up on St Patrick’s Day to what the two surfers say locals are calling the biggest day ever in Teahupo’o …Â Details & Pictures
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