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Surfer Bethany Hamilton captured America's heart when she lost her arm to a shark attack in 2003. But 20-year-old Hamilton is riding higher than ever.
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.