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- Mike_Parsons_(surfer) abstract "Mike Parsons (born March 13, 1965, in California) is a surfer sponsored by the Billabong company who was towed into a 66-foot wave at Cortes Bank, CA in 2001, for which he was awarded $66,000 the highest prize ever awarded in the history of professional surfing. This money was awarded by the Billabong XXL competition which has run since 2001 paying tribute to the biggest waves ridden each year. He is actually more famous for riding a 64-foot wave during competition at the Jaws break on the north shore of Maui. It was filmed by helicopter and used as the opening scene of the 2003 film Billabong Odyssey. A usually uncredited clip of this sequence has gone on to become a viral video, attributed to a number of different surfers, locations, and in many cases, a Tsunami.Parsons later broke his record on January 5, 2008, at Cortes Bank, when he was photographed surfing a wave that the Billabong XXL judged to be 77 feet, which put him in the Guinness Book of World Records, officially, for biggest wave ever surfed. Nearly 4 years later Garrett McNamara improved on this record with a 78-foot wave off Nazare, Portugal on November 1, 2011. Unofficially the biggest wave ever surfed remains Ken Bradshaw's wave at Outside Log Cabins, Oahu on January 28, 1998, at about 80 feet.On January 20, 2013, Parsons suffered a broken C7 vertebrae in his neck and nearly drowned while surfing triple-overhead surf at Ocean Beach, a beach break in San Francisco, California.Mike was inducted into the Surfer's Hall of Fame in Huntington Beach, California in 2008.".
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- Mike_Parsons_(surfer) comment "Mike Parsons (born March 13, 1965, in California) is a surfer sponsored by the Billabong company who was towed into a 66-foot wave at Cortes Bank, CA in 2001, for which he was awarded $66,000 the highest prize ever awarded in the history of professional surfing. This money was awarded by the Billabong XXL competition which has run since 2001 paying tribute to the biggest waves ridden each year.".
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