The SI offices are on the seventh floor of our building, a little less than 80 feet above the ground. It’s a long way down. But this guy, Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Koxa, rode a wave even taller than that.
Koxa’s ride from November was the big winner at the World Surf League’s Big Wave Awards on Saturday, winning the biggest wave award for his November run on an 80-foot wave in Nazaré, Portugal. The Guinness Book of World Records has also confirmed Koxa’s wave as the biggest wave ever surfed, breaking the previous record of 78 feet set by Garrett McNamara at the same spot in 2011.