Jaw-dropping, 30.4m wall of water

American surfer Garrett McNamara rides the massive wall of water at Nazare in Portugal. Picture: AP Source: The Daily Telegraph

IT is said to be roughly the height of 30 ladders put one on top of each other. The length of a basketball court tilted upwards or the height of a five-storey building.

A jaw-dropping, butter slick 30.4m wall of icy water.

And it was an ear-popping, heart-pounding white-water rush big wave warrior, American Garrett McNamara, 45, is unlikely to forget as it could pen his name into the Guinness Book Of Records - again.

The victim of surfing's wipeout of 2012 at Jaws, Hawaii, with a high-speed tumble down the face of a wave, this year has already ridden what could be the biggest wave ever surfed. McNamara rode the monster off the fishing village in Portugal he calls home for most of the year.

"It means the world to me. Today was an awesome day and so fun to be out there," he tweeted after the ride.

When measured from trough to crest, the sand break wave could exceed the

23.8m whopper he rode into the record books two years ago at the same location, although yesterday the height of the wave was still being hotly debated in surfing circles.

Photos and videos began circulating on social media this week before finding their way into mainstream media.

"It's insane," said highly acclaimed Surfing World writer Sean Doherty, who surfed Nazare, Portugal, with world champion Joel Parkinson last year "when it wasn't even a third this size".

"It's a pre-requisite to ride something like this that you have to be certifiably mad."

Doherty said McNamara is a local legend at the little village where the Hawaiian regularly surfs with locals.

"It's a deep ocean canyon off the coast which starts at Perniche, around half an hour to the south, and funnels north," said Doherty, who confirmed wave size is often a controversial topic in surfing.

"The swell travels unimpeded and at the canyon end, right in front of the fort, it produces this gigantic peak."

But Doherty said the surf spot is highly dangerous.

"If you just went there without any knowledge you could kill yourself," he said.

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