Are you traveling to the end of the Earth for this wave? Photo: YouTube//Screenshot
How far would you go for perfect surf? Does “perfect” to you mean warm, or is it solely based on the quality of the wave? Dylan Graves is a man who would go to the end of the Earth for a perfect wave, and when he went to the Arctic Circle, he proved it.
The Barents Sea is a wild place. There are certainly many more waves that rival the one you see here breaking in it, but getting there — and surviving there — isn’t an easy task. It’s the outermost portion of the Arctic Ocean, about 800 miles and 650 miles wide. It’s relatively shallow, with an average depth of a little under 800 feet. To the north lies Svalbard and to the south lies the Russian mainland.
“We came to the tippy-top of Europe in the dead of winter,” Graves narrates, “because apparently somewhere out there, waves can get good.”
And did they ever get good.
