Portugal for Travellers and Tourists » Surfing Archive » Portugal for Travellers and Tourists https://www.theperfecttourist.com The Perfect Tourist Travel & Tourism eMagazine Sun, 17 Jan 2016 23:04:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 Nazaré Canyon, Surfing a Giant Wave https://www.theperfecttourist.com/blog/2013/11/02/nazare-canyon/ https://www.theperfecttourist.com/blog/2013/11/02/nazare-canyon/#comments Sat, 02 Nov 2013 11:31:09 +0000 http://www.theperfecttourist.com/?p=517 The Nazaré Canyon is an undersea canyon just off the coast of Nazaré (Portugal), in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean. It has a maximum depth of at least 5,000 metres (16,000 ft) and is about 230 kilometres (140 mi) long.

The canyon is being studied as part of the EU HERMES project using a remotely operated vehicle. The project is investigating the specialised canyon ecosystems, sediment transportand deposition, and the way in which the canyon influences and is affected by local ocean circulation.

The Nazare Canyon causes very high breaking waves. This makes Nazare a hotspot for big wave surfing. In November 2011, Hawaiian surfer Garrett McNamara surfed a record breaking giant wave: 78 feet (24 m) from trough to crest, at Nazaré.[2] In January 2013 it was reported that he successfully rode a wave measuring 100 feet (30 m) in the same location, exceeding the size of his previous record-breaking wave.



"On Portugal Beach, Riding a Wave That Hits Like a Quake"


The Guardian


"Garrett McNamara surfs 'world record 100ft wave' in Portugal"

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		CNN says that Portugal is amoung the best surf beaches
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The U.S. television CNN  in collaboration with the Surfing Magazine, made ​​a compilation of the 50 best ‘spots’ surf world, which included the beaches of Ericeira Portugal and the Algarve that occupy the 34th  and 31st  places.


In this list the Pedra Branca´s beach  in Ericeira, is honored as “one of the beaches with the best waves in Europe”  and  the beach Carrapateira in Algarve  is referred to a quiet place, “usually empty.”


 


What are you wating for?

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