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My first morning ever in South Australia. We scaled down some cliffs to be greeted by these for 4 hours. Photo: Ben Lee
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Raimana’s a legend. The guy’s throwing double peace signs in the tube and makes it look fun and easy. Image: Kenworthy
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Ben Rufus. West Oz. Photo: Russell Ord
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Teahupoo master Raimana Van Bastolaer on one of his biggest waves ridden at his home spot, Teahupoo, last May 2013. Photo: Ben Thouard.
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Bruce Irons, bombing in Fiji. Photo: Stuart Gibson
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This is by far the best water shot I've ever taken: a fisheye shot at "The Right." I got really sick of the crowds in the channel, so water shots became my main focus here. I can't wait for the next one. Photo: Russell Ord
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Danny Griffith. Deep breath, Danny. Photo: Stuart Gibson
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I love the colors of the river water running through this wave. Photo: Russell Ord
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João Guedes got the biggest wave of the day, and this was his first time towing in. Photo: Joao Pedro Rocha
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Outrageous. Nathan Fletcher about to take a hell of a ride. Pipeline, December 2011. Photo: Dylan Gordon
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This is a wave they call the Yeti. It's been there for who knows how long but people are really starting to push it there. That wave makes a really scary noise when it breaks: it's the sound of the weight of water. There's this deep growl when a wave breaks and is this big and heavy. It's the ocean groaning. Photo: Matt Clark
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Isaac Buckley - no turning back. A good mate of mine and the true definition of the word charger. When this place is on, Isaac is there. Photo:Alex Marks.
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James McKean, navigating with a very foggy compass. Photo: Stuart Gibson
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Jughead at Cyclops. Photo: Russell Ord
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Mark has made more trips out West than most, and we were lucky enough to share a solo session at a secluded slab. Location – well you're not going to hear it from me. Photo: Russell Ord
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Ross Clark Jones on a Tasmanian monster. Photo: Stuart Gibson
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Sean Woolnough, paddling Love Shacks, Namotu, Fiji. Photo: Stuart Gibson
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A windy big swell day at Pipe gives beauty in the color of that heavy lip and the gloss of the inside of the barrel. The heart of the beast. Photo: Shelli Bankier
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INSIDE THE MOMENT - TEAHUPO'O, TAHITI. Tahitian surfer Raimana deep inside the jaws of Chopes. Photo: Shelli Bankier
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Shipstern Bluff: Located off the south end of Tasmania, Shippies trips the entire ocean on a granite slab, then throws itself at a headland that's lined in boulders. Once called Devil's Point, the complicated bathymetry at Shipstern creates a wave that mutates as it folds over on itself. Watch thou for the Mutant! Photo: Photo: Stuart Gibson
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That is a freak wave. Photo: Russell Ord
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Isaac Stant, about to bear the brunt of it. Photo: Sofie Louca - Fish Bowl Diaries
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Here's Everaldo from Brazil on a monster of a wave at Teahupoo in 2005. Image: Street
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You can't see him in this frame but Wade Goodale is in that barrel. The heaviest thing I have ever seen. Tahiti at twenty foot is next level and these guys go on waves that don't even make sense. Heroes in my book. Photo: Seth de Roulet
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Tens. Image: Nunn
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End of Days. Photo: Warren Keelan
Remember when the Romans in the Coliseum used to give a thumbs up or a thumbs down to Gladiators that were facing death? Probably not, because you weren’t alive. But I’d bet dollars to donuts that the thumbs down was the more popular option. If it bleeds, it leads, right? But you know what what else I’d bet on? If that crowd gave a thumbs down, and somehow, by some incredible heroics, the Gladiator escaped the swinging sword of the death-dealer, the crowd would go WILD. That’s what a lot of the surfers in the photos above do: escape that swinging sword. And yes, we go wild.
