Wave of the Day, Maverick s: Peter Mel
Big-wave veteran and Mav s pioneer finds gold during XXL swell
Dashel Pierson
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Amidst the glory and mayhem at Maverick’s on Tuesday, Peter Mel snagged a steep and deep morning bomb – chipping in from the outside peak, racing through the inside bowl section, and coming out clean into the channel. By many accounts, it was the Wave of the Day. (On the Day of Days.)
Beyond stoked, Pete explained to Jamie Mitchell via Surfline’s Instagram Story what went down in the channel, moments after the ride: “It was all Kai Lenny’s fault,” Mel laughed. “He was there, and he kept paddling deeper. So, I had to go deeper than him, then he told me to go. That’s what you need to get ‘em, right?” (Kai Lenny was also one of the day’s major standouts; more to come on that.)