From: Chris Mauro
Day Two of the 2009 Billabong at Jeffreys Bay will go down in history. But it all got started with the clash of the Icons between Occy and Tom Curren.
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.