Breakthrough big-wave surfer Mason Barnes on riding a 126.5-foot wave, “When it came in it looked terrifying. I almost didn’t go!”

Breakthrough big-wave surfer Mason Barnes, from North Carolina, on what it's like to ride the once-mythical, but now very real, one-hundred foot wave.

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One month ago, a little-known surfer from North Carolina shattered the 100-foot wave barrier at Portugal’s Nazaré.

In this episode of Dirty Water, Mason reveals to BeachGrit’s Ben Mondy what it’s like to be dragged into a wave that would be measured at 126.5 feet.