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Maverick's
Mavericks is unique in that there is a trough, that runs parralell to the shoreline, the power of the wave as it approaches shore drops into. Then the wave reemerges even bigger and more powerful. All of the surfers are towed out to the waves because they are breaking over a half mile from shore. Every place else the wave runs up to the beach, breaking as it does, and then dissipates into the sand. What makes Mavericks so dangerous is the fact that sitting on your board watching the waves work thier way toward you, a surfer sees one thing, then the wave disappears and reemmerges and is totally reworked, and most of the time larger.
Not for nothing, but I use to surf my ass off when I was a kid. Nothing even close to Maverick's. A couple of big storms maybe, but I still have some of my Surfer Mags from when I was sixteen. Can't bare to part with them or the memories.
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