Tributes have been paid to a veteran surfer who has died whereas driving waves in Portugal.
Marcio Freire, 47, from Brazil, died whereas browsing the enormous breakers off Nazare, on the nation’s central coast, on Thursday.
Support workers on jet-skis managed to get him to the seashore, however all makes an attempt to revive him failed.
The National Maritime Authority stated: “A 47-year-old man of Brazilian nationality died this afternoon after falling while practising surfing in Praia do Norte.
“The rescuers discovered that the sufferer was in cardio-respiratory arrest, instantly beginning resuscitation manoeuvres on the sand.
“After several attempts, it was not possible to reverse the situation.”
Freire had been practising tow-in browsing, the place surfers use synthetic help to assist catch sooner shifting waves than was historically potential when paddling by hand.
He was one in all three Brazilian surfers immortalised in a 2016 documentary, Mad Dogs, about their makes an attempt to beat an enormous wave referred to as Jaws, off Hawaii.
Tributes from different surfers appeared on Instagram.
Fellow large wave surfer Nic von Rupp posted: “He surfed all day with a big smile on his face. That’s how I’ll keep him in my memory. Legend.”
Sports photographer Fred Pompermayer wrote: “Today we lost a great man, a very good friend and a legendary surfer, Marcio Freire. He was such a happy spirit, always with a smile on his face…Rest in peace my friend.”
Nazare, mendacity on the east Atlantic coast, boasts a number of the largest waves on the earth.
They are magnified by an underwater canyon three miles (5km) deep and 105 miles (170km) lengthy, which ends the place the North Atlantic meets the shoreline close to the previous fishing village.
US surfer Garrett McNamara put Nazare on the map in 2011 when he set a world report for the most important wave ever surfed at 78ft (23.77m).
Brazilian Rodrigo Koxa bettered McNamara’s mark in 2017, additionally at Nazare, and German Sebastian Steudtner broke the report once more there in 2020, browsing an 86ft (26.21m) wave.
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