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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 19292748" data-attributes="member: 158020">-The Monster Waves at Nazare- The pretty seaside town and resort of Nazaré on the west coast of  Portugal remains crowded throughout the summer with tourists who flock  to its long sandy beaches to relax, swim and surf. But when winter  arrives, only the most serious thrill seekers stay. At this time, the  beaches are dangerous. Massive waves up to 100 feet high regularly break  along the rocky coastline.   Nazare’s monster waves attract big  wave surfers from all around, but until very recently, the town and its  surfing potential was relatively unknown outside Europe. Nazare hit  headlines only in November 2011 when Hawaiian surfer Garrett McNamara  surfed a record breaking giant wave measuring 78 feet from trough to  crest. In January 2013, McNamara returned to Nazare and broke his own  record by successfully riding a wave that was estimated to be 100 feet  tall. Later in October the same year, Brazilian big-wave hero Carlos  Burle rode a wave that appeared to be even bigger. Nazaré on the  Atlantic coast has now become a legendary spot in the world of big wave  surfing. How does Nazaré manage to generate waves of colossal size with such  regularity? The answer lies in Nazare's rare undersea geography. Just  off the coast of Nazare is the biggest underwater ravine in Europe  called Nazaré Canyon. This huge canyon runs 125 miles from the abyssal  plain of the Atlantic Ocean to less than half a mile from the coastline,  pointing towards the town like an arrow. At its deepest point, the  canyon floor is more than 3 miles beneath the surface and it rises  rapidly to a canyon “headwall” that rises to between 100 and 150 feet  just off the coast of Praia do Norte beach, which is where some of the  biggest waves has been known to occur.   The swells originate in  the North Atlantic from giant storms in wintertime, and as they arrive  near Nazare their energy gets focused and amplified by the narrow canyon  just like a magnifying glass focuses the suns energy into a small  region. From the headwall to the coastline, the seabed rises abruptly  that enables the waves to climb really big all of a sudden. Just before  it reaches the coastline, the sea becomes shallow enough for the now  amplified swells to break in gigantic waves.   All other big wave  spots around the globe — Teahupoo in Tahiti, the Banzai Pipeline in  Hawaii, and Mavericks off northern California — have similar undersea  geography. <img src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6h5rkGVUQgs/VkN8-AI6pmI/AAAAAAABIfE/1KLyY4Goc1Q/nazare-big-waves-3%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sUMcqQTYeUc/VkN8_FmdivI/AAAAAAABIfI/BBUrT-RllcA/nazare-big-waves-9%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-yR0gn2ciu_M/VkN9APPYp6I/AAAAAAABIfM/26qir2aWcO8/nazare-big-waves-10%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kmH-0FqNqd4/VkN9BGyfvlI/AAAAAAABIfQ/d2hIvMvmX4M/nazare-big-waves-4%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0izSihMtlIQ/VkN9CVtIlmI/AAAAAAABIfU/_Nn8jzKdN-4/nazare-big-waves-5%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1LUW6eJDiMg/VkN9DYwyZfI/AAAAAAABIfY/I2cBL0M2dEs/nazare-big-waves-7%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-e4s-lTCOXLg/VkN9EUTovqI/AAAAAAABIfc/W5_2oR5bS8w/nazare-big-waves-8%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--4w_O1xNWhY/VkN9FXLevII/AAAAAAABIfg/L3ONzTz-288/nazare-big-waves-11%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-TowhdnImp58/VkN9GQEcuBI/AAAAAAABIfk/ZBaWE6F6zes/nazare-big-waves-12%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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