10 most dangerous waves in the world

to much danger

Cape Town’s (South Africa) – Dungeons seems to be ranking very high on the big wave circuit winning the Billabong XXL 2009. Also won in 2007 and in the finals for 2008.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuVhtEcz1Bw

I think some people forget to factor in Sharks and Cold water. Cold water is desnser and hits harder,,and great whites eat you whole.
This has to put shipsterns bluff up there?
Marty from the World Boardriders Club

How can you not inculde Mavericks. Please don’t use a title like “Top 10 Most Dangerous Waves in the World” that shows up first on a google search when you don’t have a clue mate

Great ARticle but terrible photos …

Please try and get some clearer photos if you can,

Teahupo’o is pronounced chopo not chopoo (or chopu), you’re supposed to say the “teahu” part fast so it sounds like a “ch” sound. Locals won’t get offended if you pronounce Teahupo’o wrong but they do appreciate it if you at least try to get it right.

whoa dude those R some sick waves but i been on bigger 1s i have once been on a tsunami! so if you think those R big u should of seen the 1 i was on holy crap it was amazing!

Great article and well written. Obviously everybody cannot be satisfied with the list but a good attempt with a bit of humour in the last choice. There are a lot more spots of course but it’s hard to accept that a lot of the tradtional big wave spots are now taking the back seat (I have n’t surfed Mavs so I could be wrong) to spots like ‘Ours’ where drowning is no longer an option…..you will be pulverised in 5 seconds without a chance to drown if anything goes wrong. But it is nice to know that more big wave spots are being surfed for the first time commomly now. In the future heaviness will probably judged from the amount of injuries or deaths there….oh no!
paul

Tia try reading the whole list before making those comments.
Little page 1 and 2 should be a given.

grabeee na etech

 
What makes a wave dangerous? Before asking this question, we must ask the following question: why there are big waves in some places of the earth and we cannot see it in other places. I believe that there are three things that can be the fact of creating those kinds of waves:
 
- The weather and I mean the changing from low to the high atmospheric pressure weather or a stormy weather with strong wind.
 
- The position of the sun moon and the earth.
 
- The tectonic reaction in the ocean floor as volcanoes and earthquakes especially as we know that earthquake even major or minor in Richter scale level can happen every second in the ocean floor even we don’t feel it,  also we know that the major big waves happen more in the countries like east cost of Australia new Zealand Japan west cost of use and all  the west cost of the American continent, those countries is surrounding the pacific ocean and this area it call ring of fire because the volcano and earthquake activities that try to happen every second, this can lead to create big waves that sometimes can be a tsunami disaster, also phenomena we can see it in Hawaii island because this island is a land of  volcano and earthquakes in that island and the pacific floor,  also big waves we can see it in the Caribbean countries it’s because the earthquake in the Caribbean see floor and also because the weather especially during the hurricane season.