Surfer Alo Slebir describes potential world record 108-foot wave (exclusive)

• Surfer Alo Slebir, 24, drove a gigantic wave that was valued at 108 feet
• “It is the fastest that I've ever traveled on a surfboard,” Slebir tells the people. “I have never experienced such a sensation”
• The wave, which thundered in Northern California Mavericks Surf Pause on December 23rd – could possibly be the largest that was ever ridden

Alo Slebir had just arrived at Mauis North Shore at the end of last year and was looking forward to making the monstrous waves known as Jaws on the famous surf of the Hawaiian island when friends in Santa Cruz, California, started an SMS.

As with every Big Wave Surf of self-esteem, the 24-year-old Slebir and his friends constantly watched the data that Boejen, the hundreds of kilometers in the Pacific and could predict the shaft heights days before beating into the west coast, were able to predict .

When Slebir looked at the numbers, he couldn't believe what he saw.

“I remember how I looked at the buoy readings and saw numbers that I had never really seen before,” he says. “We didn't know if it would be mobile, but I knew I had to fly back.”

Slebir had returned to California until December 22nd, got a few hours of sleep and was hoping for the next morning in the first light in the water of the sacred North California Big Wave Surf Break, known as Mavericks.

But because the swells were still relatively small, he and Luca Padua, whose job as a Jet ski driver and TOW partner, is to bring him to oncoming waves to wait a few hours to take their energy for the long day before To save place.

At 11 a.m., Slebir caught five or six trips on a number of 15 to 20 feet. “They were not yet big,” he says, “probably only a eighth of the size of later in the afternoon.”

But then it happened.

In no time at all, the monsters who had predicted the Ocean Boejen days earlier had finally arrived.

“It was suddenly another world,” says Slebir. “The water color had this ugly, cloudy look because the fact that the [energy from the waves] I stirred things from below that were probably not overturned for years. It was something that I had never seen out there before. ”

The legendary surfer Jeff Clark, who has tackled the waves in Mavericks for 50 years and once appointed the surfer magazine as one of the world's best big-wave drivers-on this day on the water and was of what he experienced , veiled.

In the next few hours, a wave reached between 60 and 70 feet after the other heights.

“Everything,” says Clark, 68, “has just teamed up in this perfect synergy of energy when it met the reef.”

Slebir is not exactly sure when the big one finally arrived. Those who were there that day told him that it happened at 1:30 p.m. others said it was taken two hours later. But everyone who witnessed it was immediately sparked by what he saw.

“The wave was just … it was different,” says Clark, who decided against the attempt to drive one of the beasts that afternoon. “It was so much larger than anything we had seen that day.”

The Slebir, exhausted, but still full of energy after he had caught almost 30 massive waves, remembers the “huge wall of the water” when he held on to the tow rope while Padua hit the throttle of his jetski.

“He just shouted 'Up!' And then we went.

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A wave grows in a fractions of the second, which grows on the size of a 10-story office building-and drove faster than any swell that he had ever ridden-back to him, and Slebir found himself on the almost vertical face and traveled faster than he had ever in his life.

“Luca was probably 50 miles per hour on the wave of the wave with his jet ski at full throttle and could not catch up with the wave,” he says. “So much water was pulled off the reef when the wave was pulled up that it almost felt like I was moving back. It was a crazy sensation. ”

Even crazy were the deafening explosions that broke out behind him when the 10 to 15 feet thick lip of the shaft broke off and let thousands of tons of water behind.

“It's like nothing you have ever heard of, like Thunder Times 10,” says Slebir. “It made this clap, growling sound that almost looked as if the wave wanted to eat you.”

Slebir, who has been surfing Mavericks since he was 14, lives for this kind of experience.

“You are locked up so that your adrenaline and the years of preparation simply take over,” he says. “Every wave has a different face and none of them are identical. So if you have something to hesitate, your body will be pointed out and only tense.”

And tension was definitely not something that Slebir wanted to happen with high operations while driving. Once he hit 40 feet on the rocky sea floor, one of the gigantic wave thresholds of Mavericks and climbed back to the surface to cough blood after the water pressure burst the capillaries in its lungs.

“They prepare for the worst and then try to do their best,” he says. “I was lucky enough not to have many bad injuries, but there are a million things that can happen. The possibilities, including death, are endless – and none of them are fun. ”

Slebir's epic journey lasted between 10 and 15 seconds.

When it was over, he had an idea that he was probably pulling something special off, but not thinking about it. Instead, he went back to catch his next wave. Clark, who experienced Slebir's feat, knew that he had seen a one -time trip.

“I think I can probably say that it is the biggest wave I've ever seen,” he says.

On this evening when friends started to write an exhausted and drained Slebirfoto on his journey, he was initially convinced that the pictures had been changed.

The next morning he woke up and found around 1,800 text messages on his phone of people around the world who had seen the photos on social media. On the way, surf experts began to calculate the wave height from the video material and the pictures.

They came to the conclusion that Slebir's journey may have been 108 feet high – which means that he had just driven a wave that is larger than any other surfer in history. The current record, 93.73 foot, was laid down by Sebastian Steudtner last year, and the December wave has not yet been confirmed.

“I tried not to pay too much attention,” says the reserved Slebir, who was completed at UC Santa Cruz in 2023 and has been in surfboards since he was third. “I only know that it is the biggest wave I've ever seen in Mavericks, and many people who have surfed there for a long time say the same thing,” he adds. “”

It is even more important that the awareness of the feat could offer the unique construction worker and sales employee for various surf brands a few additional career opportunities.

“I pulled a little gap before I have to get a big boy job,” he says. “But that could enable me to keep the dream alive a little longer.”