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December 28th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By
Leon Watson
Last updated at 5:40 PM on 27th December 2011
Forget Hawaii, one of the world’s top big wave surfers believes he has found two spots which could produce waves 120ft high – off the Northern Irish coast.
Al Mennie, who has surfed some of the most extreme conditions on the planet, said he is waiting for the perfect conditions to surf what he believes is the largest swell on earth.
‘This is my mission. The good days are few and far between – 90 per cent of the swells are unrideable and we’d reckon that only two days each year are rideable,’ he said.
Northern Ireland’s big wave surfer Al Mennie, who has surfed some of the most extreme conditions on the planet, in action
‘We’ve been out and ridden them. They weren’t enormous but we are waiting for the right conditions.’
Portrush-based Mr Mennie and his right-hand man Andrew Cotton, from Devon, refuse to disclose the exact locations of the waves due to the increasing number of inexperienced surfers trying to make a name for themselves on virtually unrideable waves.
One wave is off the west coast of Donegal and the other off County Antrim.
Both crash down on rocky reefs about the size of a tennis court and Mr Mennie claims the water could be as shallow as five feet when the waves are sucked up.
‘One of the biggest concerns we would have is that someone inexperienced would turn up and try to get fame and glory,’ he said.
‘Because of the very specific bottom contours on the seabed and the weather, that’s what makes these waves.
Two surfers ride a 50ft wave at Waimea Bay on the north shore of Oahu in Haleiwa, Hawaii
Surf’s up: A tow-in surfer drops to the curl of Hawaii’s big surf at Peahi (Jaws) off Maui
Two spots have been identified off the coast of Donegal in the west, and County Antrim in the east, where huge waves can be found
‘We have to understand how the whole place works for safety – what happens if something goes wrong, access, getting to hospital.
‘A number of these waves that we have around the country could be the biggest in the world. There’s no doubt about that at all, 100 per cent. It depends on the storms coming across the Atlantic.’
Mr Mennie surfed the notorious waves known as Mavericks off California in 2003, Aileen’s below the Cliffs of Moher, and was part of a team taking on 90ft waves earlier this year off Portugal.
‘I looked for the same characteristics in Ireland as in the U.S. and Hawaii and now we’ve found waves in Ireland bigger and better. The tables have turned,’ he said.
‘We are doing the same as Hawaii but
they’re in board shorts and sun cream. This is the extreme. We’re
wearing six millimetre-thick wetsuits in water 10C and near freezing air
temperatures.’
The wave off
Donegal is near two small islands and is created by Atlantic swells
travelling over a huge underwater mountain. The direction of the waves
also makes surfing a bigger risk.
Off Antrim, added to the danger are deadly currents with tides moving at up to six or seven knots.
‘We have the reefs, we have the ocean, we need the weather and the storms,’ Mr Mennie said.
‘When
we hear about a hurricane we start rubbing our hands. They are causing
devastation in the Caribbean and it’s terrible but that is what we are
looking for.’
Mr Mennie uses
science, local knowledge and his years of experience to predict where
giant waves will form including admiralty charts, wave buoys, prediction
websites and 3D ocean models.
It’s behind you! A 30ft wave on Fistral Beach, Newquay, has just broken behind this paddle surfer and is racing towards him with an awesome force
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Vince in cork. Ireland is part of the British Isles. It’s a geographic term. Google it.
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County Antrim, Lough Neagh? Someone from the DM hasn’t been doing their homework again
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Presumably this guy doesn’t work for a living.
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I dont see how this can be possible, waves are big in Hawai, because, the islands, rise from the ocean floor, and waves reaching the islands, go from crossing a 25000 foot deep ocean, to tens of feet deep, in a very short distance, but anything crossing the atlantic, goes from the same depth, then many many miles off shore, hits the continental shelf, which reduces the depth to a few hundred feet, then over several miles, it gets shallower, and shallower. You just dont get that sudden rise, off the uk, that you need for big waves, that will travel over long distances, where you do bet big waves, the rise and break almost instantly, and they are no use for surfing.
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“Portrush-based Mr Mennie and his right-hand man Andrew Cotton, from Devon, refuse to disclose the exact locations of the waves” So how many thousands of miles in length is the ” Northern Irish coast” as stated earlier in the article and how much of it is surfable or indeed within a reasonable commuting distance to ‘Portrush’ given theyd have to get to their wave before it hit the beach/coastline?
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This ” story” should have been released on 1st April next year !
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The surfers clearly means somewhere off the County Antrim coast. Not the inland town of antrim.
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Lough Neagh, world famous for the size of it’s breakers. Must tell the NI Tourist Board.
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I think all extreme surfers are mental!!!!! albeit in an enjoyable way. I love watching them.
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Lough Neagh, 120ft waves!! You’ll be lucky if the waves lap your feet
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