By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-01 05:35:24 | Updated at 2025-01-04 01:57:59
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A Santa Cruz surfer rode potential world-record 108-foot-tall Mavericks wave
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | December 31, 2024 | Lester Black
Posted on 12/31/2024 9:31:22 PM PST by artichokegrower
At about 3:15 p.m. on Dec. 23, as a powerful winter swell raged on the California coast and left the Santa Cruz Wharf snapped and floating in the ocean, Alessandro “Alo” Slebir pointed his surfboard down the face of a growing wall of water. What came next may end up in the history books.
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That’s a big wave
To: artichokegrower
Did The Ventures write a precursing tune about it?
2 posted on 12/31/2024 9:34:43 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (You might be in the wrong place if you miss the sarcasm.)
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