One of the world's most prestigious and storied surfing contests was going forward Sunday in Hawaii for the first time in seven years with towering wave faces and a swell that will grow into the late afternoon.
And this year female surfers will be competing alongside the men for the first time in the 39-year history of The Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational.
Organizer Clyde Aikau said at a news conference Friday that he was expecting waves to reach 25 to 30 feet by Hawaii measurements or 50 to 60 feet on the national scale."We've been looking at 30 foot to 40 foot wave faces for the most part the biggest waves of the day are going to be in excess of 45 feet. By local scale, they'll call those waves 25 feet -- and we've seen a couple sets like that already," Kevin Wallis, director of forecasting at Surfline.
"What makes this contest the most unique is that it's in memory of a particular individual who really has transcended his time and place when he lived," said Coleman, who wrote "Eddie Would Go," a biography of Aikau. The U.S. Coast Guard rescued the remaining crew a few hours later after being alerted by a commercial plane that spotted the canoe."They always say at the opening ceremony, where they gather to launch the holding period, 'This is not just a contest. We're not surfing against each other. We're surfing in the spirit of Eddie,"' Coleman said.
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