spinchts maverick is like a holy spot for big-wave surfing. >> neil matthews has been surfing almost all his life, but he's never seen anything like mavericks. >> if you go to mavericks for your first time, pretty much no matter where you surfed before and what big wave experience you've had, you will find it to be remarkable. >> they've measured waves up to like 70 feet. and they actually get bigger than that. >> grant washburn has been surfing and shooting the giant waves of mavericks for almost two decades. he's seen some incredible surfing and insane wipeouts. >> it's not necessarily harder to ride big waves. the stakes are higher, and they are punished more severely. so if you make a big mistake at mavericks, it will be unlike anything else that would happen to a surfer anywhere else.