"Surf Berlin is a feature film about one man’s journey to surf the last wave in Germany. What’s unique about this surf spot, besides it’s pancake flatness, is the perfect wave that rolls through once a day when a giant ship passes by the shallow reef. Yet this unique point break is endangered, because the ship that’s been producing the wave for the last 30 years, will be replaced in the summer of 2012 with a new one, that unfortunately creates no wave. With no known documentation of this wave being surfed, local Berliner, artist, and filmmaker Ira Mowen (originally from California), has set out on the quest to ride this man-made wave into the annals of surf history."
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40 years ago when I was a teen in NZ, we lived near a sheltered beach that only got surf approx monthly during onshore storms. But on flat days we'd keep our eyes peeled for a naval frigate powering back to port. We'd have at most 15 min to run home for our boards, paddle out and maybe get one or two waves of a 4ft set. Then one day some old folk got skittled by 'this freak wave that arrived out of a flat calm sea'. They complained and the navy issued orders that the ship had to reduce speed from then on. And that was the end of that!
This is great.
Isn't there some wave in WA or maybe even Canada which is made by oil tankers and runs for about 1/4 mile?
G
It's funny how a lot of us have some connections with weird waves...and how a surfmat can be a tool of choice when it comes to approach these weird waves.
I've been surfing my Tracker in some tidal bore waves, here, in France and it's been really rewarding, so far...
Same thrill: you have to catch the one and only wave that rolls every 12 hours and it's amazing how exciting and long a river ride can be! ;-)
PG. I'm emailing you a great tanker wave shot in Galveston Bay. When. I recently lived in Fort Worth for a year, it was constantly on my mind. Henry
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