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Posted by Ron Yost (Member # 1850) on 09-23-2004, 01:15 AM:

Hey gang,

While checking out pics of Ivan's damage tonight, I happened on an astonishing video. Well, I think it is anyway. [Big Grin]

No, really .. it's of some nut .. Ok, surfer nut [Big Grin]

surfing a humongous (that's big) wave, supposedly churned up by Hurricane Ivan. The page doesn't say where it was shot, but man, this is one HUGE mutha (that's big, too)!! Good sound .. so crank the speakers but it gets very 'distorted bassy' toward the end when the wave breaks.

It doesn't look like a 'hurricane' to me, but I've never seen one so what do I know. The weather isn't 'angry' at all, so I think it's just a HUGE wave, but not Ivan-related. Could possibly be in the eye?? Looks too 'planned' and 'professional' to be a spur-of- the-moment amateur video to me, tho.

There's comment below the image, but they don't seem to know for sure, either. In any case, it's pretty neat to watch.

Here it is:

Surfing Ivan video

It's about 1.2mb, and automatically opens in a window on the page.

There are some other pretty neat videos on this site too. Check out the one called Why Palestinian's Throw Rocks. It's funny!!

Enjoy!! [Big Grin]

Ron Yost .. surf's WAY up.

Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 09-23-2004, 01:50 AM:

Cool video but if you scroll down and read the comments, it says it's from some surf movie, not Hurrican Ivan.

Posted by Thomas Procyk (Member # 1170) on 09-23-2004, 02:21 PM:

The video plays for about 15 seconds for me, then stops.

Thotalee Rhetardid.

=TMP=

Posted by Ron Yost (Member # 1850) on 09-23-2004, 03:07 PM:

Gee, sorry Thomas. I think it's your (new?, I guess) computer protecting you from experiencing -anything- to do with hurricanes .. or water. It knows you've had -more- than enough! [Eek!]

It played fine for me. Sorry it didn't for you. [Frown]

Ron Yost

Posted by Greg Davis (Member # 2687) on 09-23-2004, 03:45 PM:

Hehe sweet ride, but here in California we have a place that is called Mavericks. The wave you saw was anywhere from 35-40 feet from what I saw. It can always be decieving because you could sometimes be looking at the base rather than the swell itself. Mavericks, on a good season, will have 50-55 foot sets. This is a ways offshore of Northern California. But these are not indeed the most dangerous. The most dangerous ones are off the coast of Samoa, where they are only 25-30 foot, but because the water is so deep it isnt the classical "arch" wave, but instead the wave has several tons of water built up behind it. Its not the wave crashing, its the whole ocean behind it!

Final note:
Underground techtonic activity in the pacific near Japan happens every 483 days. In one spot about 60 miles off of Hawaii it creates a tsunami that has been measured at 75 feet. Since this happens in more or less random locations in the general area, it has been poorly documented but with growing geological technology now people have surfed it on its last 3 rotations @_@ and those people are crazy.

Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 09-23-2004, 03:52 PM:

Yes, that is one huge wave. That video is just awesome. I love watching people surf. I would love to learn some day. I am definitely going to California for the waves.

Posted by Ben Holley (Member # 2247) on 09-23-2004, 03:54 PM:

quote: Greg Davis
Since this happens in more or less random locations in the general area, it has been poorly documented but with growing geological technology now people have surfed it on its last 3 rotations @_@ and those people are crazy.

its truly great times we live in where surfers can use modern technology to kill themselves with greater efficiency [Cool]