Tahiti is home not only to a million
resorts, but also to the deadliest wave in the world. Known as “The End of
the Road”, it is the stuff of hydraulic nightmares, and this new footage
is absolutely jaw-dropping.
The wave is called Teahupoo, and while it
can’t equal waves like Mavericks or Jaws in height, it arguably trumps them in
power. Instead of turning the wave’s power into height, Teahupoo channels that
power into thickness. Waves at most surf spots look like humps in the water.
When waves at Teahupoo get big they basically have no back, so when you fall on
one, it feels as if the power of the whole ocean is steamrolling you. Worse,
the beast breaks over just a few feet of water. Literally. Just under the
water’s surface is a forrest of mal-formed, jagged, razor-sharp coral heads.
It’s taken lives in the past, and just in the last few days it has claimed many
surfboards, jet-skis, bones, and a whole lot of flesh.
And then, this happened.
Two weekends ago Teahupoo was hit with a mammoth swell, and it just happened
to occur when the world’s top 32 competitive surfers were there for a
contest. This other footage is from August 27th, when it was arguably
bigger than anyone has ever surfed it. The contest was put on hold and a
crew of madmen used jet-skis to whip each other into some unfathomably
massive barrels. There was a ton of carnage, but thankfully no, deaths.
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