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http://www.popularjump.com/ • / popularjump • The biggest wave ever surfed was ridden by Garret McNamara in Praia do Norte, Nazaré, in November 2011, with 78 feet (23.77 meters). • Known for its big, perfect and amazing waves, the North Beach is under the influence of the phenomenon “Nazaré Canyon”. • This is a rare geomorphologic accident, the biggest in Europe and one of the largest in the world, consisting on a failure on the continental plate with 170 kilometres long and five kilometres deep. • The “Nazaré Canyon” channels the swell from the Atlantic Ocean to Praia do Norte creating waves with an abnormally large size compared to the rest of the Portuguese coast. • The “Canyon of Nazaré” is the biggest underwater ravine in Europe with about 200 km long, developing in the E-W direction and going down to 5000 meters deep in the abyssal plain where it ends. The canyon headboard is less than 1 km from the coast to SW. • This contiguity of the headboard to the shoreline harnesses singular oceanographically conditions that originate hydrodynamic and sedimentary transport processes, directly related to the presence of the canyon and its morphology. • http://praiadonorte.com.pt/en
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