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Big-wave surfing gets even harder at this year's event.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-NOV-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Big-wave surfing gets even harder at this year's event.(City/Region)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Winston Ross The Register-Guard

LINCOLN CITY - Just to sign up for today's Nelscott Reef Tow-in Classic requires a certain amount of fearlessness.

The breakers can top 30 feet. If surfers in the competition miss the ideal drop-in spot and get sucked into its crashing whitewater, they can expect to languish in the deep for up to a minute. When they resurface, another mammoth wave could be towering overhead, ready to pummel them back below all over again.

Nelscott Reef is one of the world's biggest wave spots. The water off Lincoln City is 50 feet deep, and the reef...

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