From: O'Neill
Worlds current #1 female junior pro surfer Malia Manuel (Kauai, HI), the 2009 Women's World Tour Rookie of the Year and 2008 Supergirl Pro Junior Champion Coco Ho (Sunset Beach, HI), and Carissa Moore (Honolulu, HI), #1 on Surfer Magazine's Hot 100 list and the youngest surfer to win the Triple Crown event at Haleiwa in 2008.
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.