Mcnamara makes headlines

Translation: Heido Sundstrom

Hawaiian big-wave surfer, Garrett McNamara, is at it again. This past weekend, in Praia do Norte, Nazarè, Portugal, Garrett achieved the incredible, record-breaking feat of riding a 100-foot (27 ½ meters) wave!

He smashed his own record from over a year ago, when he managed to catch a wave of 24 meters in the same spot while surfing the Billabong XXL. To give us an idea of the wave that McNamara caught this past weekend, it was roughly the size of a nine-story building.

The first images were posted this morning and can be viewed on the ZON North Canyon’s facebook page: www.facebook.com/ZonNorthCanyon.

Garrett McNamara is one of the world’s most respected big-wave surfers and within the past decade, he’s traveled the globe in search of new challenges at sea. This bold, brave and skilled extreme surfer was one of just two people in the world that surfed waves created by the fusion of Alaskan glaciers in the summer of 2007. Now, with this past weekend’s wave, Garrett has made it into the Guinness Book of World Records.