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Video: Has the record for riding the world’s largest wave just been broken?
Published 10:44 4 Feb 2014 GMT
Updated 16:46 13 Nov 2014 GMT
Homesport
Once again Nazare in Portugal was the place to be for some terrifying walls of water.
Only yesterday we brought you some footage of lads off the Sligo coast riding a very big wave at the weekend but the water off the Portuguese coast was even more spectacular. Nazare is now globally famous for the monster waves it is capable of kicking up and a few months back a surfer called Carlos Burle rode what was thought to be the world's largest wave there. It was also the spot where Garret McNamara rode a giant wave in 2011. Over the weekend it was the turn of English surfer Andrew Cotton to take on the massive surf and some are claiming that this is a new record for the biggest wave ever ridden. McNamara towed him into it with a jetski and Cotton managed to stay upright for about 10 seconds before the wave overcame him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DZiLtmsYA0 Shot by Jose Pedro Gomes it has been submitted to the 'Ride of the Year' category (stop laughing) at the 2014 Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards.Most Viewed in sport
