HD: Posts from Pohnpei -South Pacific

This is a short teaser of the just about to be released South Pacific, a show done on the same lines as Planet Earth.This is the first time ever surf is shot with these kind of cameras. It could shoot up to 300.000 frames per second!All the surf footage was shot with 500 to 1000 frames per second.This is part of the Diaries segment. Something like "The Making Off" on the end of the first DVD.The surfer hired for the job was our friend and great surfer Dylan Longbottom and the camera man Bali Strikland with the support team/camera tech crew from England, New Zealand and Germany.This is a co-production of BBC and Discovery Channel that will most probably air world wide this year.The camera could only hold around 10 seconds of footage at a time so almost after every wave Bali had to come back to the boat and download all the footage into a computer and head back to the line up.To get this footage it took the crew to trips to Pohnpei, the first one in which they got 100% skunked by winds, rain and no swell (as seen on the Diaries segment) and the second trip that was called with a two days notice by us and had people flying from all around the world to get the job done on the last swell of season 07/08.That was our last window to get the shot done in Pohnpei otherwise they would not be able to get the footage on time as they had a deadline to start editing the show.If you think this is good wait until you see everything else.There are things on the footage the human eye has never been able to capture.Things you never even new happened on a wave.The Pohnpei Surf Club crew would like to thank Dylan, Bali and the BBC crew, Huw Cordey, Rudi Diesel and the Kiwi guy for the most amazing surf footage ever seen!Allois ( From wetsand) www.pohnpeisurfclub.com

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"Record" for Largest Wave Ever Ridden Trivializes Big-Wave Surfing

A return to old-school measuring techniques is in order

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.