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"      In the immortal words of Keanu Reeves, Vaya con dios! American surfer Garrett McNamara is believed to have surfed a one-hundred-foot wave, breaking his own previous world record. No, not at Bells Beach, Australia, where the final scene of Point Break was set (though it was actually filmed off Oregon), but off the coast of Nazar\u00E9, Portugal, the site of McNamara&amp;#039;s ninetry-foot record-setting ride in 2011, reports The Guardian. &amp;quot;Everything was perfect, the weather, the waves,&amp;quot; Alastair Mennie, one of two surfers who accompanied McNamara, told the British newspaper. &amp;quot;Cotty [Andrew Cotton] and I surfed two big waves of about 60 feet and then, when Garrett was ready came a canyon wave of over 90 feet. The jet ski was the best place to see him riding the biggest wave I&amp;#039;ve ever seen. It was amazing. Most people would be scared but Garrett was controlling everything in the critical part of the wave. It was an inspiring ride by an inspiring surfer.&amp;quot; McNamara was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, a city with no ocean access, albeit one with a nautical history. (Herman Melville lived there when he wrote Moby-Dick.) But McNamara&amp;#039;s family moved to Hawaii when he was eleven, and he took up the sport. McNamara turned pro during his senior year of high school, and he hasn&amp;#039;t been one to downplay his subsequent accomplishments. This is how his website describes one episode surfing &amp;quot;Jaws&amp;quot; off the Hawaiian island of Maui: Garrett was at the bottom looking up thinking this is it this is what I&amp;#039;ve been trying to get my whole big wave, life a 20&amp;#039; barrel, when a megaton lip brushed his head. It should have crushed him and everyone thought it did. He was gone, done for. The wave then spit another couple tons of compressed water, and to the amazement of everyone he emerged in a blaze of glory, like a seal getting chomped up by a giant shark and some how escaping. Garrett&amp;#039;s monster barrel at Jaws hasn&amp;#039;t been surpassed since. Not exactly modest, but then if you just surfed a one-hundred-foot wave and survived, it&amp;#039;s doubtful you would be, either. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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