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‘Biggest Teahupoo Ever’ video

The Tahiti break at its terrifying best.

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Posted 17:00 GMT on January 12, 2012
‘Biggest Teahupoo Ever’ video

Filmmaker Chris Bryan has just released this short yet amazing surf video, Biggest Teahupoo Ever.

It shows the sheer spectacle of the Teahupoo surf break in Tahiti, French Polynesia captured in August 2011 in conditions considered to be some of the gnarliest ever.

Kelly Slater described the experience as "a draining feeling being terrified for other people's lives all day long, it's life or death. Letting go of that rope one time can change your life and not many people will ever experience that in their life."

Set jaw to drop...

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Creative Commons License‘Biggest Teahupoo Ever’ video (text) by Ed Andrews is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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