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Big Wave Surfing Strike Mission to Cortes Bank – 100 miles off the California Coast

100 Miles off the coast of California… Some of the best big wave surfers in the World take on XXL Cortes Bank in pristine glass conditions.
As a commercial fisherman I have spent a lot of time out on the Ocean in good and bad weather. But I don’t think I’ve ever seen as good as conditions that we got on this Day ( January 13th, 2023 )

Perfect big waves coming in all day, and not a land mass in sight. It was a pretty surreal experience. A great white shark, 50 seals, and a bunch of surfers and water rescue shared the lineup that day. With a big film crew and a few boats watching from the channel documenting this rare in special day off the coast in the middle of no where. Bill Sharp was the mastermind of this trip. After the session he claimed it to be “The Greatest Surf Trip of All Time”. Which we all agreed. This was being filmed for an upcoming season of HBO’s 100 foot wave. Out of all the surfers that day, the only one that had ever surfed out there was Garrett McNamara. Lucas Chianca, Justine Dupont, Andrew Cotton, Nic Von Rupp, and Will Skudin had their first experience out there. And as you can see they all took advantage.

I Actually filmed a couple days before at Jaws, then went off the chase the same swell! took the red eye after to make it on the trip to cortes. We left San Diego Thursday Night and got to Cortes early Friday morning. Surfed from morning to about 3:00 PM and then headed back to San Diego and got back early Saturday morning. It was a quick and precise trip. One that I will always remember!

Reblogged 11 months ago from www.youtube.com

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Tucker Wooding Media says:

List of surfers waves by time
0:02 – Nic Von Rupp
0:14 – Andrew Cotton
0:32 – Cortes Bank Sunrise
0:54 – Super 8 Footage from Cortes
1:36 – Lucas Chumbo Chianca (biggest wave)
2:02 – Justine Dupont (biggest wave)
2:14 – Andrew Cotton Barrel
2:26 – Wave
2:38 – Boat
2:43 – Nic Von Rupp
2:53 – Justine Dupont and Lucas Chianca
3:20 – Lucas Chianca
3:33 – Justine towing Lucas
4:10 – Lucas Chianca barrel
4:40 – Will Skudin
5:21 – Andrew Cotton
5:29 – Nic Von Rupp
5:31 – Justine Dupont
5:39 – Garret Mcnamara
6:10 – Will Skudin
6:24 – local Cortes seals

Pyscho Intellectual says:

The music is picture perfect.

Will Fishing says:

That's my favorite fishing spot!!!

pier palumbo says:

The diference between from Chianca and those seals ? He is on WCT. 🤓

Guy Graham says:

Slo mo sucks, editing sucks.

pineapple sideways says:

I remember paddling out thier in the 70s from Los Angeles, 130 feet on a board I made from sea horse shells and under table bubble gum, just by myself, waves were the best in the 70s I was born in 77 I would of been 2 years old

lymanmj says:

Hi-res drone cameras have taken surf videography to new heights. Viewing an athlete from above and behind as in the scene at 4:12 is something no one has seen until recent history. The feeling one gets from virtually hovering over the crest of these waves and seeing for the first time what these brave athletes see is exhilarating. As they begin their wicked acceleration down these fast-moving slopes, looking way down at the wave base, many meters below, this feeling must be like no other.

Beautifully crafted work like this video can only boost support for the sport of big-wave surfing.

TreeSurfer (mostly rocks) says:

So fucking sick holy shit

marjanboo says:

red sky in morning shepherds warning not sailors lol good try though

baax says:

Beautiful use of one the greatest songs ever written (Cortez), great vid!

Harald Schlie says:

There must be a chapel next door and when the choir got tired they were replaced by an ordinary rock band that knows exactly three cords! I d rather listen to the music of the waves.

iAmFreedomManCom says:

That one time, surfing Cortez Banks… 🙂

Mtumix says:

One more boring surf video. Do something new….

Greg Wilson says:

Very narly only for the brave good for your soul

Jeff Madden says:

Love the view at @2:50 when the jet ski is riding just behind the crest of the wave. Never seen that before, so beautiful!

Mullet head says:

The whole video awesome footage at 1:36 spectacular the wave closing out in the back ground the the water moving around Lucas surf it unreal and to top it off Cortez the killer by Neil young which I play on guitar and sing too 👌

Wil C says:

😳 Never seen that place so glassy….Glad Will and Cotty got to go!

Martin Ginsburg says:

Anyone pretending to be safety, driving a ski without a helmet is just pretending. Yeah that baseball cap turned backyards is going to really help you when the ski slams you in the head.

Martin Ginsburg says:

surfers speak out of the left side of their mouths saying they care about the planet?
How could you care if you consider 10 jetskis, huge boat all plying the waters to catch a few waves in the middle of the ocean. Reality is all you care about is your ego shots, sponsor $, otherwise if you cared you'd live at the beach, not drive & just take whatever surf was walkable. But good news is with all the Carbon you burn you'll help create bigger storms to surf.

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