Dylan Longbottom's daughter, Summa, is as crazy as he is. The day before this footage was shot, Longbottom suffered a brutal wipeout at Shipsterns Bluff.
It’s been an insane year for Nate Florence. He’s flown around the world, hunting the heaviest waves humanly possible to surf, and documenting it all on his self-proclaimed “Slab Tour.” From Mexico to Tahiti to Australia and beyond.
Following a brutal wipeout at Tasmania’s Shipstern Bluff, Australian big-wave charger Dylan Longbottom wound up in the hospital. On his first wave of the session, Longbottom was whipped in via jetski, set his line on a freakishly steep face, then went down, and was sent over the falls.
At one time, surfing at Waimea Bay was considered unthinkable. Then came Greg “Da Bull” Noll, who pioneered surfing at The Bay in the late fifties. Flashforward to today, and Waimea is packed with surfers whenever it’s double-overhead and above.
During the first Code Red swell at Teahupo’o, back in 2011, the Tahitian government closed the waterways, so Tim Bonython snuck into the channel at Chopes and filmed Dylan Longbottom and Laurie Towner towing mutant slabs.