A 23-year-old surfer from Santa Cruz, California, may have just broken the world record for the largest wave ever surfed. When a powerful winter swell hit the California coast, Alessandro “Alo” Slebir caught a towering wave at Mavericks near Half Moon Bay that was estimated to be 108 feet tall. The current world record is 86 feet.
… Many respected surfers have commented that the wave is a world record, with pro surfer Kai Lenny saying it’s a 100-foot wave.
… It’s too early to know if Slebir truly did break the world record. Judging surf wave heights is difficult and contentious. It took 18 months of review before the Guinness World Records anointed the current biggest wave ever surfed, Sebastian Steudtner’s 86-foot wave off the coast of Portugal.
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