And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, July 9, 2023
Big Nazaré - November 7th 2022 - crazy drone footage - amazing that men with large ones do this and live to tell the tale
Those are some really complicated waves, seeing a lot of air being caught. Jetskis have profoundly changed the risk profile - and they've changed lifesaving as well. Does each of these surfers bring his own rescue rig? How does this work, I wonder- the operators have some really advanced skills themselves.
Wasn't there some Spanish lunatic who crossed the Atlantic on a jet ski about 20 years ago?
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Those are some really complicated waves, seeing a lot of air being caught. Jetskis have profoundly changed the risk profile - and they've changed lifesaving as well. Does each of these surfers bring his own rescue rig? How does this work, I wonder- the operators have some really advanced skills themselves.
ReplyDeleteThey wear inflatable tubes on the back and chest. They have footstraps. A lot of the chop was wakes from the jetskis.
ReplyDeleteA deep water canyon funnels the waves to that spot.
I had too much to dream last night by The Electric Prunes. Great song.
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