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July 08, 2005
Serginho Laus: the stoke part 2
serginho has set a new world record by surfing non-stop for 10.1 km (6.3 miles) down Brazil's famous river bore wave, called the Pororoca. for those that are like wtf is a bore wave? well allow me to edumacate yerself.....
"The interaction of the tide with the outgoing current from a river can sometimes produce an unusual solitary wave that proceeds up the river from its mouth. Called a "tidal bore", this wave illustrates the depth dependance of the wave velocity of waves from the ocean.
The precondition for the creation of a tidal bore is the existence of an outflow current speed from the mouth of a river that exceeds the incoming speed of waves from the ocean associated with the incoming tide. The wavelength of tidal waves is longer than the depth of the shallow water near the shore, so they move shoreward with a velocity that depends upon the water depth."
Serginho Laus, who spent 33 minutes and 15 seconds surfing the Pororoca. The state of Amapá has the largest number of bores in Brazil, and it was in the nest of bores that Laus faced for the first time the largest fluvial phenomenon in Amazonia.
check it here: www.surfline.com/surfnews/2005_07_07_pororoca.cfm
Posted by Single Fin at July 8, 2005 07:29 PM