From: Quiksilver Surf
This year, Mark Healey is bringing us weekly updates from Waimea as we wait for The Eddie. In this weeks update, Update 7, Mark Healey goes skydiving over the bay.Check out Quiksilver.com/eddie for more videos. And don't forget to sign up for text alerts at Quiksilver.com/eddie so you get the update when the contest goes.
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.