From: North Shore Highlights 2007
Check out TJ Barron, Joel Parkinson, Gavin Beschen and a host of others as they pull in and out of barrels during the 3rd round action at the 2007 Billabong Pipeline Masters. Part of GrindTVs coverage of the Triple Crown of Surfing brought to by the US Navy.
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.