From: GRINDTV
Aussie surfer Adrian Buchan placed 2nd with a score of 12.00, pushing him into round 12 of the 2007 US Open of Surfing at Huntington Beach, CA.
Consider two representations of two very big waves, below. The first is a photograph of Mike Parsons at Cortes Bank. The second is a video of Garrett McNamara near Nazare, Portugal. Now take out some measuring tape and make the distance of one foot between your hands. That's the amount, according to the Billabong XXL committee, that McNamara's wave is bigger than Parsons's wave.