In a swimming pool, it might be when the neighborhood bully does a massive cannonball off the high dive. On the open water ... The massive Nazaré Canyon allows water to rocket toward the coastline ...

The waves at Nazaré reach such giant proportions because they form inside the Nazaré Canyon — the largest submarine canyon in Europe, which stretches 130 miles (210 kilometers) long and ...

Nazaré boasts some of the biggest waves in the world. They are magnified by an underwater canyon 5 kilometers (3 miles) deep which ends where the North Atlantic meets the shoreline near the ...

The monster waves are cooked up by Nazaré Canyon, a submarine trench just off the coast of Nazaré in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean. Around 227 kilometers (141 miles) long and 5 kilometers (3 ...

McNamara's accomplishment wasn't just about riding a big wave; it highlighted the unique geological formation of the Nazaré Canyon, an underwater trench that funnels and amplifies North Atlantic ...

Nazaré’s biggest waves are the product of two occurrences: Annual weather patterns and Nazaré Canyon, an undersea abyss that stretches 130 miles (210 kilometers) long and 16,000 feet (5,000 ...

Again, not a huge swell on paper, but that all important NW swell direction meant ideal refraction in the Nazare Canyon, producing XL A-Frame peaks at Europe’s big wave break. “Conditions ...

46-57 (12 pages) ABSTRACTThe Nazaré submarine canyon extends ~ 210 km westward from the coast of Portugal, down to a water depth of > 4300 m. The considerable habitat heterogeneity found throughout ...

Today I saw him surf all day in Nazare with a huge smile ... caused by the Nazaré Canyon on the seabed off the coast of Portugal. It was in Nazaré where German surfer Sebastian Steudtner ...

The area is known to boast “some of the biggest and most terrifying waves in the world, caused by the Nazaré Canyon on the seabed off the coast of Portugal.” Praia do Norte has also been ...

Every year, record-seeking surfers and spectators descend on the small Portuguese town of Nazaré for the "big wave" season, when water can surge up to 100 feet (30 meters) tall. When you purchase ...