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Powerful storms bring swells and surfers to California
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1/4/2024
Surfers descended on the famous Mavericks Beach in Half Moon Bay, California, to ride out a post-Christmas storm before New Year's Day.
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We're at Mavericks, Half Moon Bay, California,
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and the waves are pretty big.
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It's like 15 to 20 foot bases.
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My first time surfing out here, I took the red eye flight over
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from Oahu.
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We were surfing Waimea the last few days
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and chased the remnants of the swell here.
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Came out here and got a few.
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It was a lot of fun.
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I saw probably about six or seven at a time out there.
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Here at Mavericks, it gets really hollow,
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and you can get one of the biggest barrels of your life.
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I'm actually from New York.
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I learned to surf from Long Island,
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from a town called Rockaway Beach.
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And yeah, I just came for the swell.
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This week, I caught a 50-footer I towed in from the jet ski,
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where you hold the rope and your friend pulls you in.
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With that, I rode a 5 foot 10 board.
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And it was a rush.
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You get into the wave a little bit early,
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but all of a sudden, the wave starts growing,
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and you just start going really fast, really quickly.
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And it's pretty sweet.
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It's just really sketchy out there.
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There's a lot of boulders down there.
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A lot of people get two-wave hold downs.
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Some people are drowned.
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It's a pretty dangerous wave.
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There's some intense rides and some intense wipeouts, too.
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I just got dragged in pretty far, like 300 feet.
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But I'm OK.
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