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broke his own record for riding biggest wave!

The Hawaiian surfer Garrett McNamara has claimed to have broken his own world record for the largest wave surfed when he caught a wave reported to be around 100ft off the coast of Nazaré, Portugal.
McNamara, who was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts but whose family moved to Hawaii’s North Shore when he was aged 11, was accompanied by fellow big-wave surfers Andrew Cotton and Alastair Mennie and Mennie revealed that the conditions were “perfect” for McNamara whom he described as “inspiring”.
“Everything was perfect, the weather, the waves,” Mennie said. “Cotty and I surfed two big waves of about 60ft and then, when Garrett was ready came a canyon wave of over 90ft. The jet ski was the best place to see him riding the biggest wave I’ve ever seen. It was amazing. Most people would be scared but Garrett was controlling everything in the critical part of the wave. It was an inspiring ride by an inspiring surfer.”
If McNamara’s claims are verified, it will mean that he has beaten his previous record, which was also set at Nazaré, by 10ft. The grandmaster of 2011 Iain Buchanan (New Zealand) was amazed at this and gave him approval and respect , when Garrett McNamara heard he was honoured by this.

Past pictures of Garrett McNamara surfering the now old world record for riding the biggest wave. Photographer Simon Adams.

Produced and written by Sam Starwind
The Noble - 30 January 2013

Zero Dark Thirty Review

Written by Katie Nash

The US film-maker Michael Moore has defended Kathryn Bigelow’s controversial Oscar-nominated film Zero Dark Thirty as “a disturbing, fantastically-made movie” that “will make you hate torture”. Moore said he did not buy critics’ argument that the film glorifies torture by showing its use during the search for Osama bin Laden. He also dismissed suggestions that the film erroneously depicted torture as a vital tool in the hunt for al-Qaida’s figurehead. Figures ranging from US senators John McCain and Dianne Feinstein to Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and terrorism expert Steve Coll have criticised Bigelow and her screenwriter Mark Boal for their approach on Zero Dark Thirty, and the film is the subject of an investigation by the US Senate intelligence committee. “I guess where I part with most of my friends who are upset at this film is that they are allowing the wrong debate to take place,” wrote Moore. “You should NEVER engage in a debate where the other side defines the terms of the debate – namely, in this case, to debate ‘whether torture works’. You should refuse to participate in that discussion because the real question should be, simply, “is torture wrong?” And, after watching the brutal behaviour of CIA agents for the first 45 minutes of the film, I can’t believe anyone of conscience would conclude anything other than that this is morally NOT right. Moore continued: “Zero Dark Thirty is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture. And it will make you happy you voted for a man who stopped all that barbarity – and who asked that the people over at Langley, like him, use their brains.”