• Big Giant Wave (French: Comme une vague, lit. "Like a Wave") is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Marie-Julie Dallaire and released in 2021. The...
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    Big wave surfing is a discipline within surfing in which experienced surfers paddle into, or are towed into, waves which are at least 20 feet (6.2 m) high...
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    Rogue waves (also known as freak waves or killer waves) are large and unpredictable surface waves that can be extremely dangerous to ships and isolated...
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    The Big Wave (Japanese: 大津波, Hepburn: Daitsunami, lit. 'The Giant Tsunami') is a 1961 disaster drama film directed by Tad Danielewski, with special effects...
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  • Motion Picture at the 18th Genie Awards, and the 2021 documentary film Big Giant Wave (Comme une vague), which won the Prix Iris for Best Documentary Film...
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  • Beans was nominated for eleven awards, but went home empty-handed. Big Giant Wave (Comme une vague) became the second documentary to win three awards...
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  • Angleterre". Films du Québec, February 10, 2022. J.P. Karwacki, "In Big Giant Wave, a film about the all-encompassing power of music, it all comes back...
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    Tsunami (redirect from Tsunami wave train)
    landslide-generated waves, including landslide-triggered tsunami, displacement wave, non-seismic wave, impact wave, and, simply, giant wave. While Japan may...
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    Laird Hamilton (category Big wave surfers)
    Laird John Hamilton (né Zerfas; born March 2, 1964) is an American big-wave surfer, co-inventor of tow-in surfing, and an occasional fashion and action-sports...
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    The wave is generally described as that produced by a tsunami, a giant wave or more likely a rogue wave, but also as a monstrous or ghostly wave like...
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  • Canadian cinematographer. He is most noted for the documentary film Big Giant Wave (Comme une vague), for which he and Josée Deshaies won the Prix Iris...
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  • "riding giants". Three surfers who are part of this multi-generational evolution are spotlighted: Greg Noll is shown as a fearless big wave rider during...
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    Garrett McNamara (category Big wave surfing)
    professional big wave surfer best known for setting the world record for largest wave ever surfed, as documented in the HBO series 100 Foot Wave. McNamara...
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  • Mexican wave (La Ola) A quantitative analysis of the propagating human wave Archived 2011-05-14 at the Wayback Machine "'Mythbusters' Try Giant Wave at DC...
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    Wales, which decided against "The Big Dunny" Giants of the Prairies List of largest roadside attractions New Zealand's big things Novelty architecture Wikimedia...
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  • Mark Foo (category Big wave surfing)
    Mark Sheldon Foo was a professional surfer who favored big wave surfing. Foo drowned while surfing at Mavericks, Half Moon Bay, California, in 1994. Mark...
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    Sequoiadendron giganteum, also known as the giant sequoia, giant redwood, Sierra redwood or Wellingtonia is a coniferous tree, classified in the family...
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  • storyline, the Giant-Men were seen saving as many people as they can after Magneto caused a tidal wave that hit Manhattan. The Giant-Men later carry...
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  • Jeff Clark (surfer) (category Big wave surfing)
    the most noteworthy big-wave surfers, famous for surfing Mavericks alone for 15 years before it was widely discovered by the big-wave surfing community...
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    Mavericks, California (category Big wave surfing)
    "Surfers take on giant waves as storm hits California". Retrieved December 30, 2023. Warshaw, Matt (2000). Mavericks: the story of big-wave surfing. Chronicle...
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  • sexism played in the response to her injuries while trying to surf a giant wave at Praia do Norte in 2013. The film premiered at the 2022 Toronto International...
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    determined that glacial drainage was not the mechanism that caused the giant wave. The Lituya Bay megatsunami caused damage at higher elevations than any...
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  • Surf League "Big Wave Performance Of The Year" finalist. As a big wave rider, the surfer spends significant time in pursuit of riding giant swells. In 2019...
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    sneaker wave, also known as a sleeper wave, or in Australia as a king wave, is a disproportionately large coastal wave that can sometimes appear in a wave train...
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    Island” take awards". RealScreen, May 10, 2021. J.P. Karwacki, "In Big Giant Wave, a film about the all-encompassing power of music, it all comes back...
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  • Surf's Up 2: WaveMania is a 2017 animated comedy film directed by Henry Yu. It is the sequel to the 2007 film Surf's Up. Produced by Sony Pictures Animation...
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  • Beijing, and New York can all be seen during the Second Wave as they are destroyed by a giant tsunami wave following the earthquake. In April 2015, it was announced...
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    Waimea Bay (category Big wave surfing)
    the giant waves that break off the northern point of the bay. While the surf only breaks big several times a year, Waimea was the most prestigious big wave...
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  • things Giants of the Prairies List of largest roadside attractions Novelty architecture Cunningham, Matthew (17 May 2010). "Small towns have big things"...
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  • Greg Noll (section Big waves)
    Lawhead; February 11, 1937 – June 28, 2021) was an American pioneer of big wave surfing and a prominent longboard shaper. Nicknamed "Da Bull" by Phil Edwards...
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