2023-11-09 09:09:41
Time.news – The Australian Laura Enever broke the women’s world record for the biggest wave surfed, to a height of 13.3 meters (43.6 feet) in Hawaii. The 31-year-old professional surfer accomplished the feat on the Oahu’s outer barrier reef on Jan. 22, Guinness World Records said Thursday.
Big wave surfers often use jet skis to get towed by huge waves, but Enever used the riskiest method of rowing under your own power. The previous record of 12.8 metres, set by Andrea Moller, had stood for almost eight years.
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Laura Enever
Even bigger waves have been surfed with the help of towed jet-skis. Footage of the wave shows Enever paddling out in front of a crowd of a dozen surfers before jumping on his board and fall down the wall in almost free fall. “When that wave came I was in the perfect place,” Enever told the Sydney Morning Herald.
“It was a real gift.” “I turned around and just had to get a few paddles, I felt it lift me up,” she said. “I knew it was big when I was paddling in it, but it wasn’t until I looked at the face and thought ‘that’s a long way away, this is the biggest wave you’ve ever taken. “I was so excited, there was just no feeling like it.”
The record for the largest wave ever caught belongs to Germany’s Sebastian Steudtner, who rode a 26.21 meter wave in Nazare, Portugal in October 2020.
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