From: North Shore Highlights 2007
Coming thru the trials Coco Ho wins her heat and beats Stephanie Gilmore to advance in the Roxy Pro Hawaii 2007 Womens CT event.
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.