วันอาทิตย์ที่ 4 ธันวาคม พ.ศ. 2559

HOW FAR CAN A SURFER FALL?

If a surfer rides a wave too slowly and it breaks while they’re on the peak, or if the wave’s simply too steep, they could be heading for a huge wipeout. Tom Dosland survived one such encounter when he plummeted from a 12-metre wall of water at Waimea Bay in Hawaii. Falling headfi rst at 50km/h, Dosland was immediately swallowed by the swirling gulf of water. It was a miracle he lived to surf another day as his board was completely wrecked. Tumble from such a giddy height and the water can be as hard as concrete. “I was freefalling for a while,” he recalls.

“It felt like I jumped off a cliff… I hit the face and it was just a brutal beating, like I was in a car crash.” But how do you measure a wave’s height? Samsung Brazil has developed a prototype ‘smart surfboard’ that not only calculates the height and frequency of the waves, but also has an LED panel so surfers can read messages from their fans on Twitter.

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