23-year-old Californian Alessandro Slebir may have broken the world record for the largest wave ever.
The wave was part of a storm that destroyed the Santa Cruz pier last month.
The wave was estimated to be 33 meters high, according to the Mavericks rescue team, which would break the current record of 26 meters held by Sebastian Steudtner in Portugal.
Estimating the official height of a wave is quite difficult. For Steudtner's 26-meter wave, it took 18 months for Guinness World Records to award the title. "Instead of the number, the size of the wave doesn't really matter to me. It was honestly the biggest wave of my life and that's all I really care about right now," Slebir said, according to SFGate.
The wave was caught at Mavericks near Half Moon Bay.
Video: @BlakeneySanford / jsandycam (IG)
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