Garret McNamara The Big Wave Conqueror. Can anyone do better?

According to the World Record Academy a Portugal town of Nazare Canyon has witnessed Garret McNamara, 44 years of age, conquer the biggest surfable wave in November 2011.

Garret is a tremendously experienced surfer who has surfed many a waves in various parts of the planet. Thanks to the strong rise and fall of the waves made possible by a unique mountain terrain and a powerful Atlantic wind Nazare Canyon has always been among the favourite places of the world record holder surfer.

As spectators later said, Garret caught the humongous wave almost by accident, but decided to go with the flow and take the challenge the nature had thrown him. This was how Garret McNamara conquered a 28-meter-high wave, beating the previous world record of 2008 when a surfer rode a 23.5-meter wave.