Biggest Waves Ever

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Charging the California coast: Surfers Catch Some of Biggest Waves Ever

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Posted: Jan 9, 2008

While many of us enjoyed a break in the middle of the weekend storm, others were bravely making history at a break off the California coast.

The photos you see here are of waves breaking about a hundred miles off the California coast Saturday, at a spot called the Cortes Bank.

It's an underwater seamount that created waves, the surfers say, were larger than 80 feet on the face and the biggest seen, or surfed, anywhere in the world.

A crew of elite "tow-surfers" used jet skis maxing out over 40 miles per hour to catch the beasts