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On 30 March 2012, Rowley was a finalist in the Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards 2011/2012, in the Ride of the Year category with his rides at Jaws Peahi in Maui, Hawaii on 30 January 2012, placing him 4th place in the world of elite big wave surfers and meriting the respect of the big wave surfing community.
Miyake reports [3] that the Surf News Network [4] expresses wave heights as "2/3 the height of the wave from crest to trough." This heuristic finds mathematical support as a compromise between two methods of expressing the combined effects of a wave's average upward and average downward deviations from mean sea level, namely a) the sum of the absolute value of a sine wave's average (mean ...
In 2003 he rode one of his most well known waves. McNamara was once again at Jaws and caught a wave with a 20-foot (6.1 m) barrel where onlookers believed he had been crushed by the lip of the wave. The wave spit and, escaping death, he emerged to the surprise and amazement of everyone watching, including himself.
Windsurfers in the waves during high surf at Ho'okipa, April 2006 Turtles drying at Ho'okipa Beach Park 20°56′00″N 156°21′27″W / 20.933214°N 156.357524°W / 20.933214; -156.357524 Hoʻokipa is a beach on the north shore of Maui , Hawaii , United States, perhaps the most renowned windsurfing site in the
Their preference is the tow-in surfing method (which they co-invented), which affords them the ability to catch the largest (and fastest) of ocean waves; their preferred location is the reef at Pe'ahi (pronounced pay-ah-hee) (commonly called "Jaws") on the northcentral coast of the Island of Maui (known for holding and breaking the largest ...
A Maui beachfront condominium is facing the stark reality of beach erosion in Hawaii. The popular vacation rental spot has some locals advocating for the removal of the building to restore public ...
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Maui police say they have completed 100% of their search area in the burn zone and are now moving to the ocean, where some fled to escape the flames. Search for bodies on Maui moves from land to ...