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WATCH: Teahupoo Code Red II

This is big-wave surfing history.

The surfing social media world has exploded over the ridiculous rides at the second coming of Code Red at Teahupoo.

It is called Code Red when swells are uncontrollable and that the police will enforce a 24-hour halt on all water activities. Yesterday was the first time this call was made since the infamous Code Red session in 2011. Chopes line-up looked kind of empty for once due to the strict rules held by the authorities. Videographer Tim Bonython who missed the swell, told us that many of his contemporaries couldn’t get on boats to head out in the line-up to shoot due to the conditions.

Only big-waves surfers’ cream of the crop was out in the XXL big wave session. Locals Eimeo Czermak and Matahi Drollet were standouts at their home break. Hawaii’s Billy Kemper and Koa Rothman were in the mix, while Lucas Chumbo and Noah Beschen were on some monstrous slabs.

Billy’s ride may have been the craziest in the session. Nathan Florence’s description of mutant Teahupoo is most fitting in that it “isn’t a wave but an entire ocean folding over.”

All surfers were happy to come out of the session alive.

Enjoy the madness!

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