Tallest waves in the world 😱 #surf #Nazaré #BigWaveSurfing

[williamhanley]

They did not invite surfers here to save their town. It just so happens that someone realized there was a big surfable wave here and the surfers started to pour in. It wasn't a plan to save the town.

[nunovilela]

Nobody was invited to save the town, it's a lie. Greetings from Portugal.

[heldersilva]

Gareth wasn't "invited" to go there "save the town"...
He just went there and surfed, and people in Nazaré still fish (and there's butchers, bakers, teachers, doctors, construction workers, etc... Just like in any other town).

[oscarsantos]

No one was invited, but they are welcome here.

[realhawaiio]

Hey
I'm Portuguese.
Nazaré has always been touristic. Town was doing fine. Surfers weren't invited.
They're always welcome tho 🤙

[brunetteordie]

Yet we saw 100 times more of you than we did of the waves.

[giarc]

Thanks for showing us two short clips of the massive waves

[MiguelDS]

Where did you get those informations dude? The economy wasn't destroyed by overfishing, overfishing didn't even happen. Portugal economy just changed from agricultural to tourism. Young people stopped fishing as a job and choose to have a "higher" education.
That's it.

[craigevans]

100ft Wave, Fantastic insight into the lives of the determined big wave surfers who put Nazare on the world map. The town welcomed surfers but didn’t invite them.

[bigchunguscultmember]

Nazaré is an amazing town even without the massive waves

[jackvolkwyn]

Imagine back in the day being a fisherman coming in with a nice haul of fish and you decided to stop at the beach when there’s a lull. In a moment there’s a shadow cast over your vessel and you look back to see the ocean opening up. Sure it would also be terrifying now I can testify to that- but back then you would literally think it’s some sort of oceanic monster and the end of the world

[HippioKass]

Alternate reality: "Pissed off fishermen raise billions of dollars to fill an underwater canyon with dirt"

[jakefrost]

Now I wanna know how underwater canyons are even made.

[culturalappreciation]

I just visited Nazare this summer! Beautiful spot.

[alexandros]

Yeah, I looked at it carefully and realised they were cross-currenting. That's the only way you get those huge, fast peaks. You'd have to really brave to take those on. Respect.

[UnwaveringBackBone]

When both my mom's swell and my Dad's swell connected, she became pregnant and I came out her canyon with a wave of other stuff so I definitely relate to this.

[-.TS.-]

Since no one has mentioned this, you read it here first. No one was “invited” to the town. The surfers found the waves.

[brunol-p_g]

Nazare was surfed long before him by locals and bodyboarders. What he did was shine the light on it for international surfers.

[derekmeadowcroft]

I went there and stayed on the upper town, if you go down on the walk to the lighthouse there are litterally signs warning you about tall waves washing over the cliff. Insane and we werent even there in peak season.

[Grimace]

The stories fake but it’s amazing about how large these waves get