Oddly enough, no mention of Steudtner under the Notable Big Wave Surfers section on Wikipedia’s Big Wave Surfing page.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_wave_surfing

There's an HBO docuseries called, 100 Foot Wave, that's all about Nazare. It's really good.

Great show. Garrett McNamara is a legend.

He was assisted by enormous pendulous swaying balls.

I was gonna ask...seriously though, what does "assisted" mean? I didn't see it in the article.

Towed in with a jet ski most likely