Comments on: Surfers Ride Record-Breaking 50-Foot Waves off the Irish Coast https://xpatmatt.com/surfers-ride-record-breaking-50-foot-waves-off-the-irish-coast/ Canadian outdoors and adventure travel writer and photographer Matt Gibson Mon, 14 Sep 2015 23:02:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Matt Gibson https://xpatmatt.com/surfers-ride-record-breaking-50-foot-waves-off-the-irish-coast/#comment-18790 Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:08:42 +0000 http://www.matt-gibson.org/?p=2269#comment-18790 I’m pretty new to surfing, so I don’t know too much about wave height. But from what I’ve read people in different places measure waves differently: some measure from back to crest, and some measure the face.

http://askville.amazon.com/surfers-measure-wave-heights-back-front-face-ride/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=512154

http://www.yosurfer.com/content/meteorology_and_oceanography/how_to_measure_wave_size.htm

I guess in Ireland they use the latter method.

Either way, those waves are ridiculous. I doubt I’ll ever get up on anything like that!

]]> By: PeteKL https://xpatmatt.com/surfers-ride-record-breaking-50-foot-waves-off-the-irish-coast/#comment-18777 Wed, 29 Dec 2010 02:36:00 +0000 http://www.matt-gibson.org/?p=2269#comment-18777 None of the Irish waves appear to be more than 30 foot maximum if that. A waves height is mearured from the water level behind it up to the crest and not from the water level in front up to the crest. Nice waves though.

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