If confirmed, Slebir’s wave would easily beat out the current record-holding 86-foot wave surfed by Germany’s Sebastian Steudtner off the coast of Praia do Norte, Nazaré, Portugal.
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It might be a little while before there’s confirmation whether Slebir truly did break the world record. After all, it took 18 months to confirm the height of the wave Steudtner rode at Nazaré.
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To tackle the Dec. 23 waves, Slebir had another surfer tow him out on a personal watercraft.
However, the publication conceded that “the business of measuring big waves is a tricky one,” with multiple entities using their own calculation methods, as well as “debate about where waves bottom out and where they peak.”
“I’ll tell you it’s the fastest time ever on the surfboard it was just beautiful one of the craziest rides I’ve ever had,” Slebir said.
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The Mavericks Rescue crew told Surfer.com that it made the preliminary 108-foot estimate for the wave using “the same state of the art technology” used by Steudtner’s team to determine the height of the 2020 wave.
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“Every wave was gigantic but there’s this feeling as a surfer when you are going down the face of a wave you’re going so fast that wave in particular there was so much water coming off the reef you could feel the wave wanting to go backwards,” he explained.
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