Surfer breaks own record on ‘biggest wave’

World-famous surfer Garrett McNamara believes he has broken his own world record for the largest wave ever surfed when he caught this 30m monster on Monday off the coast of Nazaré in Portugal.

If the claims are verified, it will mean that McNamara, who was born in Massachusetts but whose family moved to Hawaii’s North Shore when he was aged 11, has beaten his previous record, which was also set at Nazaré.

The image captured by Tó Mané, one of the top surf photographers in Europe, was jaw-dropping in its scale.