He employs a military doctor and a trained lifeguard among his team and repeatedly thinks outside the box in his approach to catch the so far mythical 100-foot wave. The German is a central figure in an international community of surfers who relocate to the west coast of Portugal each year for the season, which spans from October to March.īut there is a method behind the 37-year-old’s apparent madness – he’s something of a surfing scientist in his approach to tackling the world’s roughest seas.
The record was set in the picturesque Portuguese fishing village of Nazaré, whose north beach has been hailed as the Mount Everest of big-wave surfing having been home to seven of the tallest 10 waves ever surfed. At 26.21 meters (86 feet), it is equivalent to surfing an eight-story building. Sebastian Steudtner holds the world record for the biggest wave ever surfed.
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