NOT DROWNING BUT WINNING

It was 2013, and there was a rumour of a story out there in the ether, that the biggest wave in the world had been ridden in Portugal, and I was asked to chase the story.

My investigations led me to Carlos Burle, and I tracked his number down. It had been a few years since we had last chatted at the Red Bull Big Wave Africa, in Cape Town, but I wanted to talk to him about the real story on Nazaré, Portugal. Everyone knew that there was a crew on it, and there was a rumour that it was the biggest waves ever seen and ridden by a human. Carlos is a legend to talk to. His sense of humour combined with his faltering English can be quite fun,