The list of novelty waves is, presumably, finite.
But leave it to Ben Gravy to find one that most surfers have likely never considered – a 360-degree wave, breaking in a continuous circle around an island. Like a trashy tattoo of a snake eating its own tail, you takeoff in the same place you kickout.
“A massive incoming swell and a rising tide could bring us one of the weirdest and most extreme novelty waves I’ve ever surfed,” says Gravy in the video above. “An island created by glacier runoff, sitting in the Alaskan wilderness, with the potential of a 360-degree wave breaking around it.”
Gravy has been on an Alaskan adventure recently, bringing us glacier waves, 15-minute tidal bores, and rogue waves. But this one is something different.
If there’s a novelty wave, Gravy is going to sniff it out.
Unfortunately, Gravy and his crew (including surfer and skimboarder Blair Conklin), didn’t fully achieve the 360-degree wave. They came damn close, though; about 200 degrees, Gravy estimates. Still, pretty weird and pretty impressive.
“We were able to ride about 200° of the island before getting smoked,” Gravy wrote. “But it was a truly amazing experience & probably the most fun I’ve had surfing all year!”
What other novelty waves are left for Gravy to surf? Stay tuned to find out.
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