Guinness confirms Shawn Dollar’s 61-foot paddle-in wave record

The Guinness World Records have officially certified Shawn Dollar’s 61-foot wave, at the Cortes Bank, off the coast of California, as a new paddle-in world record. The 30-year-old resident of Santa Cruz, California, caught the superlative wave on December 21, 2012 during a terrifying session at the Cortes Bank, a notorious offshore hazard to shipping […]

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The Guinness World Records have officially certified Shawn Dollar’s 61-foot wave, at the Cortes Bank, off the coast of California, as a new paddle-in world record. The 30-year-old resident of Santa Cruz, California, caught the superlative wave on December 21, 2012 during a terrifying session at the Cortes Bank, a notorious offshore hazard to shipping located over 100 miles west of San Diego in international waters. A panel of experts measured the wave at 61 feet on the face. Dollar caught the wave using only human paddle power, yet it turned out to be bigger than any waves caught by any means in the last year – including those caught with the use of jet ski assists.

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