Do you ever tire of watching Nazaré wipeouts? We don’t either. They’re a different sort of wipeout–when it’s big, it’s rare to see someone caught up in a lip or doing an elevator drop to the bottom. Most of the time, it looks as though the surfer is simply going too fast. Hair straight back, as they say. Such is the case in the video above, shot back in October. Rafael Tapia tows into a huge one, bounces over the wake of a ski, then gets bucked off by some unseen force. That’s when the real trouble starts. That’s because the wave behind him? Well, it’s… BIG.
