Does fear not exist in surfing anymore? Are there any boundaries left to be pushed? Doesn't seem like it. After what we've seen first in Fiji in July, then most recently in Tahiti, people will pull into anything for the chance to get a photo or two. In the last couple of weeks two dispatches have come across the wire from Australia that would affirm this -- two film projects to be specific.
First is Mark Visser's "Operation Deep Blue" in which Visser, an Aussie hellman who rode 30-foot Jaws at night last winter, joins a group of "researchers from the International Aerospace Centre as they discover massive waves located thousands of miles from land." Essentially it's a continuation of the quest to ride the mythic 100-foot wave.
"Everyone knew that these rogue waves were out there. We knew that they were bigger than 80 feet," says Visser in the press material. "The hardest part was figuring out how to get out into the middle of the ocean."
"This project was really terrifying," continues Visser, alluding to the fact that him and his surfboard were airdropped alongside a jet ski into the middle of a very angry sea. "Being out in the middle of the ocean without seeing a speck of land is a very humbling experience and you definitely feel very, very alone out there."
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