Teahupoo Surf Report and Surf forecast

This might be one of the most talked about, feared, and awed wave in the world, right up there with Pipeline in Hawaii. Ever since footage of Laird Hamilton towing this monster came out, surfer’s jaws have been hitting the floor in amazement. Teahupoo is found at the end of the road on Tahiti Iti, remote and beautiful, but when a SW swell is in the water the beast awakens. What makes this wave perhaps the heaviest in the world is not the height, but the sheer mass of water that puts energy behind the wave. Once it hits triple overhead, it stops getting taller, and just keeps getting thicker. The nature of the bathymetry (bottom of the ocean) here makes the water in front of the wave suck out hard, so you end up surfing More...