Watch Now: A Raucous Intermission at Killers
Between XXL Maverick’s and XXL Hawaii, Todos Santos seduced a handful of the big-wave elite.
Greg Long. Photo: Billy Watts
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On Sunday, January 10th, as an XXL swell peaked at Maverick’s, the initial forerunners from the same storm manifested some 1,500 miles away at Baja Mexico’s legendary big-wave spot: Killers, Todos Santos. Though the nearshore buoys were already slam-dancing well before dawn on Monday, January 11th, the action was slow as a high tide forced a two-hour lull.
By the time the tide bottomed out mid-afternoon, Killers was pumping. The same high pressure system that kept the storm away from Maverick’s also helped ensure a clean arrival here in Mexico for the long-period energy, which wasn’t getting jammed up by any local, short-period swell. The sun was shining and the winds were light and variable all day long. Fresh out of the brine after a demented dream run at Maverick
The thing that struck Maya Gabeira was the sound. “I had never heard anything similar: it was the first affirmation that that was the biggest wave I had ever ridden,” she says. “It was just ‘phwoooaaaarrrrrrr.’” She mimics a bomb exploding in her hands. There was also a continuous “Brrrrrrrrrrrrr,” she says, like a deep engine humming – the sound of tonnes of water falling, falling, falling from a great height. “It almost vibrates inside your.
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