A surfer named Alessandro 'Alo' Slebir is estimated to have ridden a 108-foot wave at Mavericks, a popular surfing spot near Half Moon Bay, California. Experts are still confirming the wave height, which would surpass the current record.
Alessandro “Alo” Slebir, 23, was surfing with friends on Dec. 23 when he caught what some are estimating to be a jaw-dropping 108-foot-tall breaking wave in the popular surfing spot just north of Half Moon Bay, about 25 miles southwest of San Francisco. Slebir was in Hawaii when he heard about a major storm that moved off Japan and was creating huge waves across the Pacific and heading straight for Mavericks.
'You’re going so fast on those surfboards — you’re probably going 30, 40, 50 miles an hour and that wave was so tall that it was sucking so much water coming back at you that it was a weird feeling,' Slebir said. 'Feeling the friction of the water underneath the surfboard, I’ve never felt that on really any other wave that I’ve ever caught.' Incredible footage captured the impressive feat and showed Slebir fearlessly riding the enormous wave as it swelled to more than ten times his height.Experts are still working to confirm the speculated 108-foot-tall height of the wave — a height that would blow the previous surfing record of 86 feet out of the water. German surfer Sebastian Steudtner holds the title for the largest wave ever surfed with Guinness World Records and the World Surf League, after catching the 86-foot wave off at in Nazaré off the coast of Portugal in 2022. Crowning a new record holder might not be so simple, however, with some experts comparing the process to “naming a new pope.” 'You can measure Mt. Everest every day of the week for 100 years, it never moves,’ Bill Sharp, who has spent decades orchestrating the world’s most rigorous big wave surfing awards, said. A group of eagle-eyed experts follow a process known as photogrammetry, which involves comparing the size of the surfer in the footage to the height of the wave
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