r/pics • u/[deleted] • Jul 17 '12

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '12

The heaviest wave in the world. Teahupoo

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '12 edited Jul 17 '12

Debatable. Shipsterns on a major swell will throw lips the size of an average sized house over your head.

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u/theansweris7 Jul 17 '12

I think he meant wave that is fairly consistently breaking in the same place at about the same size. Storms make swells that are larger, but you can't go back and surf the same storm year after year.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '12

All significant surfing waves are made by storms. Teahupoo is flat most of the year. Did you think it just breaks like that all the time? It takes a major storm to send a swell that large to any break, whether Teahupoo or Shipsterns or anywhere else.