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Check out this day 1 action. Surfers from all over the globe hit stormy conditions on Frances North Shore. Surfers include Tom Curren, Adam Melling, Shaun Gossman, Adam Robertson, Andre Silva, Rhys Bombali, Klye Garson, Marlon Lipke, Romain Coltre, Guilherme Herdy, Kekoa Bacalso, Leigh Sedley and Paulo Moura
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.