From: breakwater
Aussie Troy Brooks earns the top spot in heat 1 with a score of 14.14, knocking out Jordy Smith and Tom Whitaker in round 48.
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.