From: Chris Mauro
The long awaited follow up from Dana Brown, director of Step Into Liquid. High Water is the story of Hawaii, its pivotal place in surfing, and a paradise that's repeatedly lost and found.
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.