{"id":15760,"date":"2018-04-30T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2018\/04\/30\/watch-surfer-rides-record-breaking-80-foot-giant\/"},"modified":"2018-04-30T19:22:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T19:22:00","slug":"watch-surfer-rides-record-breaking-80-foot-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/watch-surfer-rides-record-breaking-80-foot-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Surfer Rides Record-Breaking, 80-Foot Giant"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Trust us: Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Koxa is somewhere<\/em> in this shot of his 80-foot ride last November in Nazar\u00e9, Portugal.<\/p>\n

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Take a good, long look at the image above.<\/p>\n

On the face of the wave, veined as it is with tiny lines of white, there’s one thin line that stands out from the rest. There, streaking diagonally in the center of the frame, is the wake left by a man so small compared with the giant he is riding that he is all but unfindable with the naked eye.<\/p>\n

That’s Rodrigo Koxa, riding a wave last November in Nazar\u00e9, Portugal.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, at the World Surf League’s 2018 Big Wave Awards<\/a>, the Brazilian surfer’s wave was declared the biggest ever surfed \u2014 at a whopping 80 feet tall. That beat the previous record \u2014 78 feet by Garrett McNamara<\/a>, also at Nazar\u00e9 back in 2011 \u2014 and it naturally won Koxa the night’s prize for biggest wave of the year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Watch the full ride for yourself below or at this link<\/a>. Or if you’d like, skip below to watch the other Big Wave Award winners<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Koxa said that as unprecedented as the wave may have been, he did appear to have some<\/em> inkling about what was in store, even before a Jet Ski towed him straight into the maw of this heaving goliath.<\/p>\n