From: montage
Surfing's "night of nights" saw ten time world champion Kelly Slater (USA), four time world champion Stephanie Gilmore (Aus) and the late Andy Irons celebrated in an emotional evening in front of the world's best surfers and surfing industry identities.
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.