Was it worth it? Photo: Ben Gravy // YouTube
The longest waves in the world are often not what you would expect. Sure, there’s your classic peeling point break (the king of which is the famously long ride in Chicama, Peru), but that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
For a truly endless ride, you have to go a lot weirder.
One way to do that is a tidal bore. These occur when the leading edge of an incoming tide forms a series of waves that travel up a river. Though the phenomenon is relatively rare, it has been exploited numerous times by novelty wave hunters for content, with Ben Gravy, Dylan Graves and Jamie O’Brien all making strike missions to various bores around the world.
The latest entry in the tidal bore canon comes from Gravy, who found one in Nova Scotia, Canada. There, a 21-foot tide created upwards of nine-minute rides on the Petitcodiac River – and at one point almost drowned one of Gravy’s team members in a pit of mud.
Check it out below.
