Not that long ago, I finished watching the “100 Foot Wave” documentary series about Garrett McNamara, who is known for discovering and pioneering the biggest waves in the world at Praia do Norte, Nazaré. This tiny fishermen’s town wasn’t known so well to surfers until McNamara made history in 2011. Soon after, everyone started to hunt the ocean’s Everest, and Sebastian Steudtner was definitely the best of them.
The current world record already belongs to Steudtner after he rode a 26.21-meter (86-feet) wave in Nazaré in 2020. And now he may have broken it after surfing a salty giant that was provisionally measured at 28.57 meters (93.72 feet), but he still needs to wait for the official declaration.
