The Australian achieved the feat at an outer reef on Oahu’s North Shore in January.
SYDNEY: Australian Laura Enever has surfed her way into the record books after stroking into a giant four-storey wave in Hawaii earlier this year, the World Surf League and Guinness World Records said yesterday.
“When I took off and I looked down the face and was like ‘Holy cow, this is the biggest wave you’ve ever been on, just make it to the bottom, do not fall here at the top’,” Enever said. “I came up from that wave, and there was a huge, huge wave behind that took out the whole line-up, and I just saw boards flying everywhere.“There was actually three of them that came, so yeah, just had to stay super calm … When I got to the inside, I was almost laughing – I just couldn’t believe I’d caught that wave but also escaped that crazy, huge wave behind mine.”
“It was amazing because I’d come to terms with it just being a moment I’d had and even if there wasn’t any photos or records of it, then I was happy with that,” she said.