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C SMITH - 9 years ago

3:37 "He's done it!....."What?" ....."HaHaHaHa"_____.
Woh! Riveting stuff there BBC.... (lol)
"WHAT?"

Sacred Light - 11 years ago

you mean brownwash wave! usually whitewash

MrArtigentz1 - 11 years ago

Brazil! My homeland!

mia wick - 11 years ago

If you want to surf a 1 hour wave,why not come to Munich? There you can find a wave in the river Isar in the english garden,that is always in 1 place^^ Here some videos : /watch?v=CSoYFHn1W5M /watch?v=fFQKP5z6OcA It is an artificial wave, but since it is in a river the conditions are changing all the time, which makes it much more fun then usual artificial waves.I know even some pro´s use it for training,since it is an artifical wave that behaves like a natural wave,which is pretty unique ^^

Erick Massa Sprengel - 11 years ago

pororoca in Brazil... nice.!

David Grant - 12 years ago

how was he preparing for the worst

Matthew Manzano - 12 years ago

that fucken sucked my 3 year old sister can do that my dog might even be able to do that

Aidan Isik - 12 years ago

I never knew water was brown.

roadrunnermakmak - 12 years ago

where is the wave???

10. comment for Surfing the world's longest wave - BBC

kevin gazeau - 13 years ago

mousseuse ....

eduardo camilio - 13 years ago

LOL that shitty wave is full of shit ! haha

4ztorienTheAwsome - 13 years ago

@Stratocaster05 whats the point of riding a longboard down a long road? The same reason, fun and excitement. lol

Nightfawx - 13 years ago

does long mean flat?

Hannah Morrison - 13 years ago

I would've used a longboard.

Jose Riascos - 13 years ago

thumbs up the comment below me

ALPENTALBC - 13 years ago

What a couple of mary's. There was no 'barrel'. This is the dumbest thing I've seen BBC do.

izzmasta5tousand - 13 years ago

kooks

Vinny Jacobs - 13 years ago

this is soooo silly!

adrianshus - 13 years ago

bbc sucks

20. comment for Surfing the world's longest wave - BBC

James Cummings - 13 years ago

defo not convinced about the inclusion of the word 'iconic' in the description... I would have said more like 'shockingly uncool' and 'really bad wave' and 'poor choice of surfboard' and a few other things i just realised i cant actually be bothered to write in here.... Just as well Human Planet redeemed the BBC's surf rep (along with the amazing super slo mo HD underwater stuff on another show....)

T - 14 years ago

why would they send these two douchebags to do this interview, so retard.

Manaf&Art - 14 years ago

Did he just say "Horses CLAWING thier way" DUDE COME ON YOUR BRITISH,ITS GALLOPING

Green Lane - 14 years ago

should've brought a longboard.

itay guetta - 14 years ago

lame,,,,,,,

Fim de Abril - 14 years ago

Nice production for a poor pororoca surf video. Just search YouTUbe and you'll find some real pororoca surfing.

viking.again.viking - 14 years ago

@cbirds22 u can wash ur filthy face in it

damon79 - 14 years ago

Chill out. I was taking the piss. You should check that Third World attitude of yours dude. Then again, I'd be pissed off too if I had to shit in the same water that I drink. Plus you're only 17. Still a little baby that hasn't seen the world yet. Aaawh... little baby needs to travel to understand what I am talking about. Bye bye little baby. Excuse me if I don't reply to what will be a lame retaliation, I am not going to argue with someone whose balls only dropped a few years ago.

Jack Kashitski - 14 years ago

I'm sure that I can think of something else to do

Áron Perger - 14 years ago

shit colored water... that's just uggly!

30. comment for Surfing the world's longest wave - BBC

neilandfi - 14 years ago

@aznboyz345 It's a tidal bore. Google search a few images of them, because some get pretty big.

neilandfi - 14 years ago

@Xattheend But they don't. Better examples of this wave to be found if you search for "Serginho Laus" or his channel "Serginholaus". He is THE man when it comes to tidal bore surfing. This is crap by comparison.

Nicolas Acosta - 14 years ago

bbc fuck off!!!

YOURPENGUY - 14 years ago

@dpowderhound Энергіі ў цяперашні час бясплатна. 1896 Землятрус Санрику цунамі Японіі, цалкам магчыма, можа лічыцца самым смяротным выпускаюцца электрамагнітных Ніколы Теслы сейсмічных падзей. Гэтая катастрофа, што Тэсла зрабіў левы вялікае ўражанне на гісторыі Японіі. Падчас фестывалю Сінт 15 Чэрвень 1896 землятрус у ўзбярэжжа Санрику, Японіі ацэньваецца ў 8,5 бала па шкале Richer

meow kittens - 14 years ago

shit you guys are annoying

andoman121 - 14 years ago

This is possibly the worst film documentary EVER. Did anyone else see a shot of the face at 3:06? The made one of the nicest, longest rights in the world look like a doo doo infested wall of white water. This is what you get when kooks get a camera

Adrian - 14 years ago

shit...nobody has videotaped when i was surfing tsunami. . . :p

woods9447 - 14 years ago

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! he rode white water!

damon79 - 14 years ago

I feel sorry for those third world countries. It's bad enough that they live in poverty and slums. Poor bastards don't even have real waves either.

Henrique Arroyo - 14 years ago

@jacaldevilla i think everybody knows that here in brazil maybe it's in geography books the colors of the two rivers don't mix for a while, making a half dark and half brown river

DeVoNiSrEtArDeD - 14 years ago

"it feels loike, woird howrse clewring theyre wey down the reever"

bilbo baggins - 14 years ago

kooks

Russell Neill - 14 years ago

idiots

Ja Cal - 14 years ago

@brejeiro where did you get that explanation?

Cid Arruda - 14 years ago

It's colored because this wave is in the origin of amazon river, which is the mix of black river and solimoes river! The black river, as the the name says, is very dark, because there are in it a large sum of organic and mineral material and the the solimoes is a kind of redish river. That's why is colored!

Lu Cam - 14 years ago

jajaja son unos muertos !

Gustavo Munoz - 14 years ago

FUCK OFF! I WAITED 4 FUCKIN MINUTES EXPECTING A HUGE ASS WAVE! DO NOT WASTE UR TIME!!

Jack Kashitski - 14 years ago

@kaic808 The crocodiles can swallow 14 year old's much easier than these guys.

Myacono - 14 years ago

@cbirds22 But that water is purer than your tap water

Kaimana Cornelio - 14 years ago

i would bodyboard dat an im only 14

50. comment for Surfing the world's longest wave - BBC

gingernutbumchin - 14 years ago

Its called the Pororoca. There are better docos of this wave. They were in a small part of the wave. There are way begger parts where the wave breaks along perfect. Worth checking

cristian ortiz - 14 years ago

@neilandfi You're Right

neilandfi - 14 years ago

@thyrebel Ok, this section is crap, and there's no WAY I'm going to defend their surfing..not possible. but this wave, when things are set up right, can be clean and in excess of 5 metres on the face. Search the net..seek and ye shall find evidence. Tidal bores are crazy, this one, and the chinese one ( which gets even bigger) are off the scale of crazy, and extremely powerful.

Manasa Sovaki - 14 years ago

3:02 hahahaha serious face

mikeymikey112 - 14 years ago

Agree, whas a kooks. What a bigger board?

Jacob uaduSson - 14 years ago

FAKE!

dpowderhound - 14 years ago

I think the point is that it's in a river- yes, sort of boring, but still pretty insane wave in fresh water

John Sumner - 14 years ago

Yawnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn...Lets war old school PFD's and ride in a boat, surf for 10 secs. then quit and ride more in the boat............SPORTS FAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AussieBloke108 - 14 years ago

wasnt a waste.... if it was actually valuable you wouldnt be on the computer right now.

cristian ortiz - 14 years ago

you're right, but you have to admit it's crazy how far out they are and how much white wash there is, it's almost like being at cortez bank in CA

jhhfgh - 14 years ago

@1crow and their reaction were anooying as hell too

1crow - 14 years ago

how fu@#ing stupid, they spend more footage on reaction shots

Smolchy79 - 14 years ago

its only a special wave because u can ride it for miles over an hour on one wave. Not because its a big wave you morons.

dudleygarramone - 14 years ago

Check the puss on the boat driver 3:02 looks like he want to throw the two nerds in P.F.D 's overboard

Robert Richards - 14 years ago

Yawn.......English people are such drama-queens

Carlos Malaga - 14 years ago

SURFERS NERDS

Paumonsu - 14 years ago

@XxSkiburxX it's brown because it's full of minerals that's why it's full of jungle

adventuresinbelieving - 14 years ago

3:03 IT'S gENERAL mANUEL nORIEGA!!!!

adventuresinbelieving - 14 years ago

e voce? onde surfa - in your bathtub i bet! lol

Factual Fiction - 14 years ago

two over excited girls, you suck

Rosa Sakhi - 14 years ago

..........

Escapetehfate - 15 years ago

thats crap

renato sjr - 15 years ago

Tinham que colocar bons surfistas ai,esses são mt ruins d surf para um documentário da BBC.

BM - 15 years ago

Its the POROROCA, the amazon's river longest wave

galen davis - 15 years ago

how often???? every full moon?

BSJW - 15 years ago

why does this wave carry on for so long?

Andrea Zanolini - 15 years ago

You are great!! Nice job!!

Rebecca M S - 15 years ago

yea i did. i tought im gonna die :P was reaaally cool!

Andrea Zanolini - 15 years ago

You surfed this wawe???? :O

Rebecca M S - 15 years ago

thasts sooo cool the wave is not really big but STROOONG i did it once

Raoul0Duke78 - 15 years ago

wankers, waste of time.

Tory Knoepfel - 15 years ago

i dont know... maybe if they were riding the face it would be better..

Afik Mazon - 15 years ago

lol preparing for the worst

NoPain - 15 years ago

its high tide

gaura - 15 years ago

how is the wave caused?

SierraKilo9 - 15 years ago

Super-kooks!

SierraKilo9 - 15 years ago

and a tow-on to a decent section.

ponchoso - 15 years ago

boo

nickolas233 - 15 years ago

they should of used something like 8'-9' range

nickolas233 - 15 years ago

shit looks nasty

superdonyoungy - 15 years ago

These aren't a true representation of British surfers LOL, this wave has to be the worlds longest straighthander.

Brad Smith - 15 years ago

off the tampon .....smacked the lip and a mud shark

Haka Lau - 15 years ago

kooks

adamgoe - 15 years ago

more like idiot british guys fail at surfing

slick57690 - 15 years ago

More like the world longest white wash ride

Jonathan F - 15 years ago

COMMERCIALS PISS ME OFF

McDavid4755 - 15 years ago

lol at 3:00 looks like the guy is like dam these people talk to much and needs to stfu lol

David Kirkland - 15 years ago

Wank

Peter Michael Benninga - 15 years ago

what an idiot that presenter, he has absolutly NO idea!!!!!

Luke Bear - 15 years ago

Lequinhozzz, I did not say the water was polluted, it is not me. I was agreeing to Cadenp123 that the life jackets were hilarious.

100. comment for Surfing the world's longest wave - BBC

elpsurfer - 15 years ago

The BBC are core surfers

Siouxton Stoorvogel - 15 years ago

THIS VID SUCKS!

Luke Bear - 15 years ago

I thought I was the only person who saw that!

srwboy - 15 years ago

LOL! They failed badly!

Gustavo Rabelo - 15 years ago

no, pororoca : The pororoca is a tidal bore, with waves up to 4 meters high that travel as much as 13 kilometers inland upstream on the Amazon River. Its name comes from the indigenous Tupi language, where it translates into "great destructive noise". It occurs at the mouth of the river where river water meets the Atlantic Ocean. The phenomenon is best seen in February and March. (Wikipedia)

bigeMe - 15 years ago

sucks to be you haha

Picaro1 - 15 years ago

I can not hear it(seem like they are talking), and I have checked all of my equipment and other videos do have audio.

enrico masiero - 15 years ago

bbc sucks

Max Libbey - 15 years ago

sweet if you were water skiing

wavesfromhell - 15 years ago

Kooks!!!!!

2huntnfish - 15 years ago

too chopy, shoulda used a long board and tow .

Exthox - 15 years ago

As long as theres no coral in shallow water...ur ok....damn i tried surfing over coral in spain got stung by a jellyfissh and cut up my leggs

muhd dzar - 15 years ago

FUCK YOU!

minitari - 15 years ago

yes it is THAT god

59FIFTYMAX - 15 years ago

how can he afford a surfboard?

Oklinhos - 15 years ago

LoL i like the translation ^^ "você olha, ta papocando mermo la no meião, e é ela que vem" = " you see something, that´s the wave coming" HUAAHUhuauhahuahua

jjs4you2 - 15 years ago

This English guy is just a bit to excited for what is happening here. Stick him in a small boat on the edge of the channel at Teahupoo on a 20' day. He would need a diaper change!

Daniel Valentine - 15 years ago

unlucky

indigo4fox - 15 years ago

24K of Adrenaline ha ha ha ha!!!!

Lee Chaffe - 15 years ago

why didnt they surf on the side?

nivanth103 - 15 years ago

be better if he fell

KLongva - 15 years ago

thats what the title of the god dam video says moron

RAUL BARRERA - 15 years ago

super LOL !!!!

Alex Dowling - 15 years ago

haha brown wash!

Gabriel Abella - 15 years ago

can that be called a wave !! cause to me thats no the surfing thats only wash

BeNmAyBeRrY127 - 15 years ago

that sucks ass, the other one is way better, its like 3 foot and not just white wash

neilandfi - 15 years ago

Never heard of Tom Blake holding any record.Only 3 people have held that record in the past 20 years or so, Sergio Laus, Dave Lawson , and Steve King. Currently held by Sergio, at around 7 miles.

Kavlatin - 15 years ago

gonna quit surfing after seeing those geeks. OMG. aaa

Fabio P - 15 years ago

make sure that next time yu guys talk about something yu at least google it, and by the way, dirty water?? this is the biggest clean and pure water river in the world,

yubazubee - 15 years ago

I love the translator....he's like...what am I doing here????

neilandfi - 15 years ago

Chicama is a great wave, and must be the longest normal wave in the world, but it can't compete with any of the tidal bores. Even the Severn Bore is over 20 miles long. But several of the Pororoca and the Chinese Quiantang Bore run for a much longer distance

saddamdontsurf - 15 years ago

they took the wrong boards. couple of 9'6" tanks could have gone for miles.

Andrew Mclean - 15 years ago

nice fucking life jackets you losers. you just let everyone know your clueless and un-researched by lowering your self like that. come oon. two clowns go poo-poo. that would be as interesting as this. there have been many films done on this wave so maybe next time take some real surfers and knowledged reporters that have a clue.

Taylors Lane - 15 years ago

still pretty cool! imagine a never ending wave!

ThatEbonyChick1 - 15 years ago

lets see you do better fuckwhit

pkoch05 - 15 years ago

That was stupid. Thers a much better bideo called Pororaoca.

markie mark - 15 years ago

its only white wash, what a waste of time. thats not the point of surfing

bradlez996 - 15 years ago

It's on the Amazon in Brazil. Its called the Pororoca. Google search it dude, it's no bullshit, but you share the wave with piranha. Although in JBay, you get sharks and crocodiles don't you.

Lorenz028 - 15 years ago

is that "surfing" ? to stand on the board on a "wave" like that..

scr33nlook3r - 15 years ago

no shit it was long not big

CorvusCelius - 15 years ago

oops not americans sweedish people lol why would a sweedish person call the britsh you n000b

CorvusCelius - 15 years ago

why are americans jelous of english people?

Nek Fe - 15 years ago

Pretty dumb jumping into a wave like this without any experience whatsoever, considering the dangerous currents, the wall of brown water, flotsam and debree, crocs ffs... british retardation...

Chad Muñoz - 15 years ago

WHAT A SHIT !

Bob Jones - 15 years ago

they wernt fucking pro surfers it took them like 15 sec to stand up and they coudnt stay on for more than like 40 sec

WhiteShark125 - 16 years ago

I wouldn't even want to touch that water.

neilandfi - 16 years ago

The thing with tidal bores is that they roll on for miles. So if you don't like one section, just wait . There will be a bank somewhere up ahead that'll change the shape of the wave. When people say my local wave (Severn bore) is shit, I ask them "which bit?", because no way do they know the whole run, and every spot. To understand them, throw away your ocean knowledge and start again. The first step to learning is to realise you have something to learn.

Circa PCs - 16 years ago

waist. high. mush... not a wave

madmiguelh2o - 16 years ago

worlds longest closeout

Thomas Ujdur - 16 years ago

should be titled the worlds shittest wave. Not even worth getting we if you ask me

aciverson84 - 16 years ago

in the other videos they really surf it... Surfing the amazon is the title

neilandfi - 16 years ago

It's not even the longest wave. That's in China..another tidal bore. Why didn't these guys just move on until they found a clean section? What was the point of paddling into that giant mush? I like bore surfing, but this isn't a particularly good example.

Robert B - 16 years ago

thats the most lame thing ive ever seen, who really cares about a giant wave of whitewash???, or should i say brown wash

el niko - 16 years ago

que quilombo este video una mierda!!

R H - 16 years ago

what a bunch a maroons... thats what u call idiots in brit right?

tankak47 - 16 years ago

"we didnt do very well..". NO SHIT?

toribaby2005 - 16 years ago

AWESOME BOYS! xox =]

Chris Smith - 16 years ago

This is a tidal surge, not so much a wave. It never breaks, it just pushes in.

Adil el harrif - 16 years ago

sick

vinesboyseventysix - 16 years ago

boring

Dimitri Nakos - 16 years ago

That was a horrible waste of time....

pacificisle628 - 16 years ago

that's RAD!!!

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