... daring of big wave surfers head out to the Bank for one simple reason: it is home to the biggest rideable wave on the face of the Earth; a swell of massive proportions that surges in from out of ... a championship series of contests run by the nascent Association of Surfing Professionals. By 1989, Sharp and George had found their way—somewhat unexpectedly—into the small world of surf journalism, ... account of an amazing phenomenon and the people who tried to conquer and exploit it. A great read.”—WINSTON GROOM, author of Forrest Gump“ Aer reading Chris’s most excellent account of the monstrous...