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BBC World Service, 11.30amMore than 2,000 languages
are spoken across Africa,
but young Africans are
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thetimes.co.uk/bulletinsI
n the early 2000s a documentary
was broadcast about Laird
Hamilton, a pioneer of tow surfing,
in which surfers are given a boost
by jet skis so they can ride waves
that look like collapsing skyscrapers. It
was a word-of-mouth hit; soon the
film Riding Giants followed and a new
genre of surfing documentary was born.
If the surf-titan Hamilton was and is
the king of the Hawaii wave Jaws, in
recent years the focus has turned to a
fellow surfer extraordinaire, Garrett
McNamara, and the even moreferocious break he has made famous:
Nazare in Portugal. Now The 100
Foot Wave is his HBO documentary
moment — a six-part series following
his obsessive pursuit of the 100ft “ride”.
“Actually, scrap that,” he says early
on. “I don’t want a 100ft wave, I want
120ft.” Despite such Point Break-like
statements, McNamara, 54, seems
more like a Zen businessman stripped
to Bermuda shorts, relaxed and rather
imperturbable even when having just
set a world record of surfing 78ft (in
2011) — itself an astonishing vision.
Replete with images of the sea as a
place of terrible beauty, the series is at
its best when focusing on McNamara
(rather than other Nazare daredevils)
and the relationship between surfer
and place. The Nazare swell is almost
its own character. It is caused by a
16,000ft-deep canyon, which forces
up giant wedges on the surface, or “sea
monsters” as the first episode’s title
calls them. Angry, unpredictable
things that make the Jaws break look
serene; frankly it looks like insanity to
go anywhere near the ocean here.
Before McNamara, Nazare was a
small village, its seas simply a place to
be feared, rightly, by its fishermen.
Episode one details how McNamara’s
involvement has helped to make the
place world famous, which makes you
wonder what the old fishermen would
make of all these tanned foreigners
turning up, eager to flirt with death.The series certainly makes it very
clear how dangerous the pursuit is.
McNamara’s wife, Nicole, describes
how her one attempt at surfing a big
Nazare wave has left her with PTSD.
A later episode covers the near death
of Maya Gabeira, who fell and was
crushed under 140 tonnes of water.
Why do it? So far it could be argued
the series doesn’t provide much deeper
behavioural context, but perhaps there
isn’t really one. If you’ve grown up
surfing it’s simply in your blood.
Big-wave surfing is presented here as a
curious harmony of ego and respect;
an extreme communion with Mother
Nature. Episode two starts with
McNamara surfing next to a collapsing
glacier. One’s desk job suddenly seems
a wholly inadequate way of life.
What must the Clintons be making
of Impeachment? The TV drama is
great fun, but it’s certainly not sparing
any blushes in raking up all the dirty
details. Last night, Beanie Feldstein’s
Monica Lewinsky brandished a certain
blue dress, the one with a stain that
would almost bring down a presidency.
Yet it’s the internal tangle of Sarah
Paulson’s Linda Tripp that grows ever
more fascinating. Now recording
Monica’s phone calls, Linda is feeling a
sense of guilt about stitching up her
“friend”. Not quite enough to stop. But
then Feldstein/Lewinsky’s constant
girlish breathlessness over Bill would be
enough to drive anyone to treachery.Daredevil’s lifelong pursuit of the perfect wave
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