From: Surfing America
The PacSun USA Surf Team heads to Costa Rica for the 2009 Billabong ISA World Surfing Games. This is the sixth webisode in a series which will document the USA's quest for Gold!
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.