What is the biggest Wave in history and where was it?

Question

What is the biggest Wave in history and where was it?

Answer 1

Anybody who said Maverick or Hawaii. Wrong Wrong Wrong.

The biggest waves in The world are 100 miles of the coast of San Diego. Place is called Cortez Bank. Waves here can reach up to 100 feet

Answer 2

Southern Ocean off Cape Horn in the 1930's. Best estimate by experts from the photo taken by a crew member on a ship the Battle ship "Admiral Scheer" is at least 130 feet. Photo is pg 46 "Handling Small Boats in Heavy Weather" by Frank Robb. Pub Adlard Coles Ltd

Answer 3

The biggest wave ever ridden at Cortez Bank is 66 ft by mike parsons in 2000. 85 Ft. is the largest wave ever ridden. North Shore , Oahu

Answer 4

Biggest wave ever surfed (claimed by surfers )

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/01/09...

http://www.kenbradshaw.com/bradshaw/

Biggest wave in history

http://www.extremescience.com/BiggestWav...

Answer 5

90000 feet, in my dreams

Answer 6

Actually the biggest wave in history happened in Lituya Bay, Alaska.  The wave was 1,720 feet high.  It happened july 9th, 1958.

Answer 7

Cortez Banks, at least at the moment.  I would recommend checking gout the Billabong XXL website.  It shows the top big waves from around the world.  You will be very surprised at the locations of some of them.

http://www.billabongxxl.com

Answer 8

In January 2001, the biggest wave ever surfed was in Cortes Banks by Mike Parsons at about 66ft.

An official record was a 70-footer ridden in January 2004 by Pete Cabrinha at the Jaws big surf spot, north shore of Maui.  I believe this record still stands.

New records are currently being considered with the January 2008 rides in Cortes Banks by Mike Parsons, Brad Gerlach, Greg Long and Grant Baker, with waves of about 75 - 85 ft.

Billabong's website is really the best resource on this.

As already mentioned, the biggest wave ever recorded - not surfed - was the Lituya Bay Mega Tsunami wave in 1958, measuring 1720 ft.

Answer 9

Check out "Step Into Liquid" this movie is amazing it has a whole bunch of film from that day at cortez bank http://www.stepintoliquid.com/index.html

Answer 10

Ken Bradshaw rode the largest wave ever. It was on the North Shore of Oahu on a reef outside a popular spot called Log Cabins. The wave was 85 ft.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/condition...

. The largest wave (Not ridden) but recorded was 91 FT during Hurricane Ivan in the Gulf of Mexico 2005

Answer 11

the biggest constant wave in the world are in mavericks, half moon bay, california