Are You Dying of Surf Boredom This Summer?
Hawaii's McNamara and Mamala First Surfers to Ride Alaskan Glacier
Tsunami Waves
Summer in Santa Barbara is usually a time when most locals either leave town to surf somewhere else, or sublimate with wakeboarding, skateboarding, or even surfing video games. I recently came across this option for those of you might be feeling surf deprived, and have travel fever. Check this out!
Honolulu - (August 15, 2007) - Hawaii tow-in surfing team Garrett McNamara and Kealii Mamala have just returned from Alaska where they became the first - and possibly last - surfers to successfully ride glacier-generated tsunami waves of up to 25 feet. Their tsunami surfing experience took place at Child's Glacier on the Copper River, in South-Central Alaska, located near the town of Cordova, Alaska. Sheer ice faces of over 400 feet calved away from Child's Glacier, crashing into the waters below and setting off left- and right-breaking waves that peeled across a pebble-bottom river bank for more than 300 yards, offering rides of up to one minute long. In order to catch them, the surfers would wait up to several hours in the icy water for a glacier to fall, then chase down the ensuing wave on their jetski and attempt to ride with being injured or killed by ice and rock debris...
Tsunami Waves
Summer in Santa Barbara is usually a time when most locals either leave town to surf somewhere else, or sublimate with wakeboarding, skateboarding, or even surfing video games. I recently came across this option for those of you might be feeling surf deprived, and have travel fever. Check this out!
Honolulu - (August 15, 2007) - Hawaii tow-in surfing team Garrett McNamara and Kealii Mamala have just returned from Alaska where they became the first - and possibly last - surfers to successfully ride glacier-generated tsunami waves of up to 25 feet. Their tsunami surfing experience took place at Child's Glacier on the Copper River, in South-Central Alaska, located near the town of Cordova, Alaska. Sheer ice faces of over 400 feet calved away from Child's Glacier, crashing into the waters below and setting off left- and right-breaking waves that peeled across a pebble-bottom river bank for more than 300 yards, offering rides of up to one minute long. In order to catch them, the surfers would wait up to several hours in the icy water for a glacier to fall, then chase down the ensuing wave on their jetski and attempt to ride with being injured or killed by ice and rock debris...
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