From: gnashvid
Paige Hareb, 18 years old from New Zealand, recently qualified for the elite world championship tour. Here she is talking about her year and season on the North Shore.
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.