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August 15, 2007 - Hawaii tow-in surfing team Garrett
McNamara and Kealii Mamala have just returned from Alaska where they
became the first - and possibly last - surfers to successfully ride
glacier-generated tsunami waves of up to 25 feet. Their tsunami surfing
experience took place at Child’s Glacier on the Copper River, in
South-Central Alaska, located near the town of Cordova, Alaska.
Sheer ice faces of over 400 feet calved away from Child’s Glacier,
crashing into the waters below and setting off left- and right-breaking
waves that peeled across a pebble-bottom river bank for more than 300
yards, offering rides of up to one minute long. In order to catch them,
the surfers would wait up to several hours in the icy water for a
glacier to fall, then chase down the ensuing wave on their jetski and
attempt to ride with being injured or killed by ice and rock debris.
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