From: GRINDTV
Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Dornelles placed 1st in heat 22 with a score of 15.00, beating out Hawaii's Dustin Barca and Mason Ho.
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.