softbootsurfer Posted February 14, 2010 Report Share Posted February 14, 2010 Link to Surfline Coverage... Click on NEXT on top left corner of Photos... http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/saffa-charger-chris-bertish-takes-title-in-largest-mavericks-surf-contest-ever-held_41086/1/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted February 15, 2010 Report Share Posted February 15, 2010 The Santa Cruz Sentinel stated 20,000 spectators. Some even took a dip...the hard way. Some broke bones. It hurts. I got hit in the same type wave conditions about 6 yrs ago when I wasn't looking. Shredded my forearm on barnacles right through my wetsuit before I could bounce back up. I even lost my 5 yr old daughter once for an excruciating 30 seconds when she was swept off the beach. You could go back on any non-contest day and have it all to yourself with local pros in the lineup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softbootsurfer Posted February 16, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 The Santa Cruz Sentinel stated 20,000 spectators. Some even took a dip...the hard way. Some broke bones. It hurts. I got hit in the same type wave conditions about 6 yrs ago when I wasn't looking. Shredded my forearm on barnacles right through my wetsuit before I could bounce back up. I even lost my 5 yr old daughter once for an excruciating 30 seconds when she was swept off the beach. You could go back on any non-contest day and have it all to yourself with local pros in the lineup. Many years ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boarderboy Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 I've ever seen was a 1950's B & W of an excruciatingly desperate man and woman racing to embrace each other during a futile search for their toddler (?) who'd been swept away by on-shore backwash at "Banzai Beach," Hi. Assume it's what we now call Pipeline. This was in the hayday of Life and Look mags, and some of the "decisive moment" photogs of the time were incredibly good, even without motor drives. The recent spectator washovers at Maverick's contest sound scary as hell. Amazing there weren't more injuries or a drowning. BB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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