the fin sliced lickle, causing him to bleed into the sea, which he feared would attract sharks. hamilton swam to recover the watercraft, found lickle in the surf, fashioned his swimsuit into a cloth tourniquet, and applied it to lickle to save his life. hamilton then piloted the watercraft back to a landing, where lickle was immediately taken to a hospital for treatment. brett recalled that day for chris dixon that brett towed laird into a wave that was in his opinion "better than 10 stories tall" and the biggest wave ever ridden. that means over 100 feet tall. it was not photographed and therefore not officially recognized by the xxl judges.