Home of the biggest surfed wave in the world - Nazare
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Chris & Katie Russell
Mon 12 Jun 2017 14:26
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39:35.48N 009:04.74W
We sailed down the 35 miles to Nazare - again past long
beaches and cliffs to a little port that boasts to being next to the place where
the largest surf wave has ever been recorded (30m - 100ft). It is believed that
this is due to the swell hitting a deep trench that runs opposite the entrance
to the harbour that then sets up a set on the beach by the local headland. We
just hoped it would not be like that when we went in. It wasn't.
Chatting to the locals they told us that the surfers get
towed out by jetski and then the jetskis have to go in and pick them up
before they hit the beach following their surf. Scary stuff. They also pointed
out tat there had been no fatalities as yet but several big scares when cpr has
been given to surfers who have been driven downwards in the undertow and only
just survived
Take a look at this video
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