The Once'A Swell June 2016 East Coast Low

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[@salvitoripopadillo4539]

Australia needs more people like Professor Andrew Short making decisions for the people and the country! What he's saying towards the end is the most sensible thing to do but it's also the Aussie thing to do. Keep beaches like that for the community. Make it a public place! Don't sell it off to the rich! That's what happened in the States too much! I am an American that was born in Australia. I've lived there, learned to surf there and have a lot of family still there! Most of my extended family. Not to take away from the incredible surfers in this video or the amazing swell that occurred during this time! I'm a product of the late 70's so Tom Carroll has always been my hero!

[@kobyjohn7086]

When nobody talks it up everyone faces the same problem. Life is truly inspired

[@shauntomson1]

Wonderful to hear the great Midget Farrelly talk about the majesty of the ocean during your epic swell - his love for surfing shines through. Surfing was lucky to have such a man.

[@richardmason902]

Your words echo my thoughts Shaun. A great man and friend to all. Surfings gentleman.

[@carnagedogg4294]

I used to watch you on surf videos, you used to get my mums attention because you were a surfer but you could costruct a proper sentence.I still remember a fellow Vetea'podo' who my dad laughed at on a video who said "there were pleni a wave ...an a lotta barrel" I think English was his second language but my dad wasnt to know

[@salvitoripopadillo4539]

Shaun Tomson: My name is Sean as well. You were the surfing champion of the world the year I was born! You're a legend as Midget is as well. I was born in Sydney but grew up in Minnesota. After relocating several times just to surf, I found waves on Lake Superior! My dream is to surf Narrabeen, Avalon, Manly or any of the beaches of the city I was born in! Call me Shaun. lol. Let me put you in a 5/4 wetsuit with a hood, gloves and booties and surf some over head barrels in fresh water while it's snowing. Then you can take me to J-bay! Deal?

[@vickryan]

Shaun Tomson my dad used to tell me about you surfing at Rincon. you are a legend.

[@galaxy_7035]

Dhfhd

[@zenagain6634]

A really well put together piece. Well done. RIP Midget.

[@mozdickson]

Nice work. Wow. You Ozzies can thank NZ for this swell, bit like CA in 76 11:36 righthand corner for some much needed levity.

[@superorangeish]

Very well done.Hats off to those who charged this historic, beyond juicy, macked out swell.

[@patricknoveski6409]

Always good to hear Tom tell stories. But the best interview was the guy at the end, tellin it like it is. YOU CANT TAKE THE BEACH AWAY & EXPECT HER NOT TO COME BACK & KICK UR ASS. . . MATE !😂

[@henryssurfshowcase]

Excellent documentation !!

[@conspiraciesarejustgreatst2059]

absolutely amazing how something simple like a storm moving slightly slower than normal and certain winds can make a beach break turn into an off shore perfect swell spot

[@flaviorett168]

Fantastic !!!!

[@taylormckeever7304]

Great video!!!

[@11henger]

great work sally mac

[@krustysurfer]

Nice show chargers!I can see why pipeline seemed to look easy when you surfed it Tommy!N.Narrabeen is quite the wave, with all kinds of other good setups around, fortunate souls! Aloha

[@johnswimcat]

Really interesting video, well made

[@navigator902]

When the ocean is angry enough that your equipment is obsolete, relatable .... when you calculate your commitment and technique, and your experience... should I take it ??? I feel alive.....

[@TheZacdes]

I remember 86, i was living in Bondi then, Fairy bower was an epic 12 feet with the break in front of the point whose name i cant fucking think of at the mo[getting old] just HUGE dredging drainpipes that sounded like all the water in the ocean going down a gigantic plughole,lol..Fucking AWESOME, somehow i gathered the nuts to to get the shit flogged out of me getting out, got two of the heaviest barrels of my life:) It made big Nias look tame!! Any of you who know this break that barrels only yards from the rocks would know just how shit scary it is at this size!! What a day :) ARRRGHH, it shits me, i just cant dredge up the name of this beast from my fading ,abused memory,lol I THINK it has the same name as the left around the point from Bells beach??? HELP!!!

[@CainanParker]

You talking about deadmans or winki pop?

[@TheZacdes]

ahhh winki.lol,,long time ago, been a LOT of places since then:)

[@Honeysucklebommie]

Out the back and to the right of Bells looking at it; Inside Bells.These guys above are talking the other way.

[@CrabmanCAM]

is it coogee bombie?

[@omgsurfer]

Lol Coogee bombie is located right next to Fairy Bower right? Your geography's a bit off my friend.

[@dannyarcher5690]

Cape Town, SA has waves like this every year, especially in winter.

[@macauleyohaillin4421]

THE 40 year Storm....For Real?.... .Truly EPIC..!!!!!!!.....!!!!!

[@wilm567]

Macauley O'hAillin but yesturday was better

[@greeneyedcat2748]

I still have images of this swell, it got so big at Dee why point photographing it i was pushed into the toilet block for safety, I remember watching parts of the concrete public pool drift by .

[@brianbirc]

Makes me think of the Cali Pipeline. It is rare but less rare that breaks 3-5 times a year. I had some epic days of huge square thick barrels vibrations felt on the beach. Did not need big wave guns but need to pop up quick and not make a bottom turn. Epic huge spiting green rooms.

[@cmoon682]

that gentleman commenting on the erosion should be your mayor

[@ericmartin9818]

v voy

[@calebmagan1866]

EPIC! Charging all round

[@johnmcculloch5736]

We are overdue for a monster east coast low

[@clarkewi]

Legends.

[@howardacquistapace5084]

who shot photo of Dave Jackman? around 11:00 minutes?

[@torrynerheim2887]

Not sure who it was at the end that had to bail by running up and driving the nose down to avoid decapitating, (whoever) but my admiration go's out for that man! as a great water man and great surfer; he not only had a fantastic tube ride but saved a life of another by using his experience in dropping out of site. He flew over the guys head!!!!!!

[@RogerEssigArtist]

great doco.

[@adambamf9365]

carrolls words were awsome felt like i was there

[@Redneck3610]

When he said the best wave i ever got was when i first got married , yep it sure is then then its down hill from there on

[@warwicksmiley9411]

i seen that big wave it was good

[@cosmoganic]

So on a huge day like in this video, how does one paddle out the back on a high volume, long length board that's impossible to duck dive? Just getting out there must be an epic achivement. Could anyone share any tips on how these guys manage to do it? I have found using a high volume board on bigger, powerful days makes it a real challenge to get out. of course the length and volume is required to catch theses beasts but I am just intrigued as to how these guys pull it off??

[@EcopiuM]

Most of these guys cheat on their skis mate. Don't worry about it too much and if need be just throw your board and dive down.

[@nicktrueman224]

Yeah many use skis like said but if you have offshore reef set ups with deep channels, if you can get through the beach break you can paddle through the channel and the big sets can closeout channels depending how deep they are. But yeah, get through the maelstrom or a sneaky jump off spot and you can be out on a maxing reef. But always surf to your abilities and fitness. Don't ever let someone push you into something you are not comfortable going out in. Remember you got to get in yet;)

[@raindogred]

Missed seeing that swell..bloody legs on me barstool wern't long enuff...bugger!!!

[@lotuschile]

From the 1940's until 2020 the collaroy to narrabeen coastal erosion zone has ebbed and flowed over the decades but hasnt moved. my question: are global sea levels rising? my suspicions are leading me to believe that its not. 70 years is quite a while and the sea lines are staying consistent. what is going on?????

[@grizzsbiz]

Ride on in Peace Midget.

[@southrules]

Think about the hundred million years of wasted waves when nobody surfed

[@edmorgan4911]

The dolphins and seals though?

[@xroth4855]

southrules surfadactyl rex would go

[@johnswimcat]

When I lived in the Orkney Isles, off the north coast of Scotland UK, seals used to ride waves with me... Whether they did it anyway, naturally, or learned from me I don't know, but they definitely paddled for waves and rode them. I'm guessing many other surfers must have seen the same thing

[@harveygrimwood8953]

southrules y y.

[@oneandonlyjaybee]

Think about the fact that every wave now and in the future is as a result of the energy initiated at the moment of the big bang. A breaking wave is the final act of just one pulse of that energy.

[@therealmeemawmallen9493]

Wow God's majestic power in motion!

[@pedroslivak5185]

The best part of this movie is:"- Scary"! TCarrol.

[@davidbarrett8058]

7 houses were washed away.. .. but it was WORTH IT!!!!!

[@thelastrebelshow1627]

Everybody’s a surfer now. Everybody!

[@tunastrike11]

amazing what the wind does to the ocean

[@RNicolasRuvalcaba]

Nice!!!!! 25:26

[@pweter351]

WA gets that big several times a year, surfed east coast for ten years before getting scared in the east. Tommy would charge Margaret's when big

[@bipolatelly9806]

There's LOTS of big surf coming, now we have entered the Eddy grand solar minimum. (food could be a slight problem tho') Thanks be to the electrical Universe!

[@73gmiller]

Yea, a man can't live off sand alone.. Big waves no food could be a issue.

[@73gmiller]

Way to big for me but I'd love to watch.

[@broderickwallis6641]

The lights were still on#!! $/::!??@@#. Now a resident on giiligans lsland. "Yeah just plug in a lead Skipper"!!

[@hitcho5812]

cyclone Uesi (or whatever) brought us some good swell, but not big enough, and like no barrels

[@johnmcculloch5736]

Live thru ONE cyclone on the beach then you will wish that you lived two blocks back.

[@macauleyohaillin4421]

Faarrrckin' Wicked...!!!.....Even Bigger than it looks, of Course, like ALWAYS....(!!)....

[@jjs4you21]

25:09 I'd need a diaper change after this one? Whoooooosh as it spits.

[@prisoner810]

I saw it in Port MacQuarie. . .didn't go out... ... ... djc

[@DanHall777]

why not just move to Vicco?

[@chrisb1953]

Just resume the goddam land at Collaroy Beach! You know it makes sense.

[@freeman_su]

So sick~

[@2ethefirst318]

that one guy looking like a surfer lumber jack

[@JohnCarter-eg4ws]

A lot of belly boarders couldn’t get there in time because of the knitting competition also going on in town 😢😢

[@macauleyohaillin4421]

How's that Slab(!!!) .....in the foreground @27:30...!!!....( Fkn HELL!!!....).......HEAVY!!!..

[@macauleyohaillin4421]

....Meant 26:30......

[@lanakilabarrows3739]

some bombs rolling in there. sweet video

[@hawaiianitedivah]

surf looks like fun to me.....

[@DougieL]

Is it just me or are parts of the commentary repeated? (Or am I going crazy!?) Some epic footage in here all the same.

[@thisisme7587]

So many words. And then this big wave came, i turned around and paddled for it, and stood up and the lip pitched and and and... Fucken yaawwwn. Should be renamed sydney gets good waves, sydney people surf sydney. Fuck sake Awesome swell and conditions in other places as well

[@dukelysszayas6756]

DUKE DARHEK muratta ¡¡ for your this is sports ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️🌊✨✨🌌🗿

[@WhiteNacho]

To much jib flapping.

[@jjs4you21]

Keith Miller jib?🤔

[@adambamf9365]

17:53

[@azzwaltstandup22]

so a kiwi was the first to surf queenscliff bombie....?

[@CainanParker]

Ey, enough of that talk... He was definitely Australian, quite similar to Phar Lap

[@azzwaltstandup22]

+C Park same as Russle Crowe

[@howardacquistapace5084]

Azmoss 22 ask JACKMAN. the guy who conquered BOMBORA all alone (if that's the same place) see. the pic in the book MODERN SURFING AROUND THE WORLD...i think...by some early 50s surfing photo journalist. i owned a copy till my sister evicted me from my digs legally as the executor TRUSTEE of tbe parents' trust fund.

[@howardacquistapace5084]

Azmoss 22 oh shit re) my previous comment i wrote before i saw whole story re) jackman... o well

[@charlottemoghal550]

Ha ha I've lived in Ireland. LOL Can't say where for only 8 months. Fark me.... this place is ridiculous. Makes an aussie east coast low laughable. I was in oz /I'm a bloody aussie from the Gong all my life . Now don't get all excited and get to Ireland. It's brutally cold in the water.... I mean 8.0 degrees ain't that bad but Ive lost all reality living here. But if ya got the balls and don't mind/icebath icecream water get amongst it.

[@yesfratbknowin1631]

common sense what a breath of fresh air

[@LONGISLANDHAWAIIAN]

fkn Aussies makin mountains outta molehills hahaha best story spinners ever god luv em,

[@Mango-uy9ts]

good doco until climate change was brought up

[@Reppie.]

Lost me when he mentioned climate change.