I grew up surfing in Oxnard, at Hollywood by the Sea ( our name in those days). We never even considered going out to the Channel Islands in those days. Of course, we had little money nor access to get there. Thanks for letting us know about Shark Park. I can't image an injury out there, it is so far away!
The Santa Barbara Police Department concluded its investigation into Brown’s passing, explaining that he was high on methamphetamine when he fell from a cliff above Hendry’s Beach and subsequently drowned. “It was determined that Brown died as a result of drowning due to blunt force injuries, which were caused by [his] descent from height to the rocky surf line below,” police spokesman Anthony Wagner told the San Luis Obispo Tribune. “Other significant conditions include acute methamphetamine intoxication,” he added. “According to the investigation and toxicology reports, [Brown] was under the influence of a high level of methamphetamine when he descended from a cliff to a rocky surf line below… He sustained blunt force injuries that were significant enough that he was unable to remove himself from the surf line and drowned as a result.”
Good on you Chris Brown(RIP), So Stoked to know he was one of the first to surf this area. Hell it was scary just being an Urchin Tendor out here. Yes the break made you want to explore, but never did. Its truely GNARLy in even aspect.
Amen. I was out on this last South swell at Santa Rosa / Skunks. There is a reef just out from the point that popped up, a massive wave that scared the F out of me. I have never seen it break that far out and wasn’t looking in that direction. I can only image what it would be like at Miguel.
These comments about exploiting it are hilarious. That's a two hour boat ride from Gaviota. Windy more days than not, and those winds are about the most unpredictable in the sailing world. Conditions could look just right in the morning, and four times out of five you'd arrive to a blinding fog or 20 knot winds blowing it to hell with the sharks laughing at your lost cause.
you are so right, I used to surf and now kayak fish and that whole area is prone to fog, wind, chop, heavy current, and big surf in a storm swell (especially in the winter), so be careful as the central coast is no joke, it gets rough fast
Hysterical that anyone thinks this spot will get exploited, let alone crowded. BTW, there’s heaps of waves like this all up and down the Central and Northern coasts. Almost no one surfs any of them. Big Sur alone is absolutely holding but is so hard to access that it will never be an issue. Crowds prefer ease of access.
You're absolutely correct either you have a lot of money and you're a experienced Mariner.Or your profession is out on the ocean chances are you won't make it out there to the real heavy spots and if you do you'll probably die if you don't die you'll be rescued and you probably won't even see the waves at their best conditions. So with that said you are absolutely correct there is no way for these waves to be crowded. Only the backside of Santa Cruz island it's safe enough for the average person to possibly make it out there safely . That is as long as they don't get ran over by a tanker on the way out. But even Catalina Santa Cruz Anacapa the Disneyland islands can take your life in a second. Maybe when the VTOL vehicles come onto the market for the general public there could be a possibility then.
@@dukehong7491 Almost certainly bigger than it looks. I’ve scoured the Big Sir coast for waves many times. Every spot always turned out to be bigger and heavier than I thought. That whole coast is an absolute swell magnet.
Haha yeah I've seen bigger waves than this in the Humboldt Jetty. Not to mention waves like this all over the Lost Coast. Where should I look in Big Sur? Don't worry only like 10 people will see our comments and no one will blow up the spot as you say
RIP Chris. Worked a lot of days as a tender for Urchin and Abalone divers at the west end of San Miguel and watched this place break on occasion, its very spooky. Anyone that surfs it is both brave and nuts. Its a white shark migration route feeding zone. I've dove the west end of Miguel near this spot, once, it felt so exposed and not fun I never went back in the water out there.
@@tonysmario817 honestly quite a lot would. There is no glory in the grind it takes to get good at surfing, at least not in cold California waters. People mostly surf because they love it and are addicted to the feeling of ridding a wave. Some in LA and more in San Diego might be in it for social and cultural reasons and get to be sort of OK at it, but farther north in 45 degree air and 50 degree water and hitting it before dawn to avoid onshore winds, it takes a love of ridding waves not a need for attention.
I have lived and surfed on Kauai, Maui and Santa Cruz so have seen a lot of sharks (mostly tigers and great whites). The creepiest shark spook I ever felt was the last time I surfed Ano Nuevo alone one foggy winter afternoon. Didn’t see a shark but the message to get the hell out NOW was loud and clear.
@@joeblow1942 I know that feeling. I had to get out, I rode my board till I hit the sand. Prior to that moment I was surfing the best in my life, when, all of a sudden a feeling of dread over came me. I looked around and I was all alone. Everyone else had gone home.
Back in the 80's and 90's the Vision, Truth and Conception would take us out to the channel islands to shoot fish and get abs. Once and a while they would take us on the windward side of the island, more often than not we were on the lee ward side cause the sea was too rough. The guys that surf there are something else, hats off to them. Thanks for the story.
I've been out there both diving and looking for surf. Never found decent waves, but the diving is fantastic and where I had my scuba certification dive. I'll never forget jumping off the boat and clearing my mask and looking down into beautiful clear water full of living creatures. A different word from simply diving off the coast. I never experienced sharks there, but definitely my own stupidity along with the guys I was with on a small boat looking for surf. Low on gas, fortunately a fisherman gave us some or we might not have made it back to civilization. Cool isolation out there for sure.
@@darktechnologyjoeramirez4252 Nah, he lived in the neighborhood here and just like everyone else in SB, we tend to go surf Ventura/Oxnard on occasion for something different or if the swell is not hitting SB as good.
Always remembered being in AWE of his "Chris Brown Wraparound" Met him at Avila Beach / Pt San Luis Breakwall right sandbar looking like sandspit SB and CB was just dredged the wholeeeeee fucking breakwall. The big Harbor breakwall not the little boatlaunch wave... amazing times
Hi I used to comm fish swords out there, have you checked the San Nicolas break off the west side there a spit that goes out a mile to a rock ,check it sometime ,good luck Dan zacha
I seen the worst possible situation out there ! and you are alone a long way from help it took coast guard over an hour to get into the area let alone find us. by time they where able to assess the situation and deploy any meaningful help it had been 2hrs. it was 2hrs to long. much respect to the coast guard .
Yeah they're good two hours to the island that's pretty incredible.they saved my ass to right in front of whiny view harbour f****** water was above the batteries I put out the maydaythey responded and were on scene in five minutes they had me pumped out in 20. I was blessed it was a glassy day.
Yeah....jimmy was a cool dude...we hung out at moore meadows all the time....him and his dog! ....urchin divers are a special breed of surfers! ....i thought skunks on rosa was rad, or tallcots....but miguel is knarley bro! Big 747s!
@talesfromchannelislands ive got the biggest standup barrel shot of myself at skunks...you wouldnt believe it if you saw it...got spit outta that thing like a cannon...same thing happened at east point...now theres a shallow reef! Claimed our brand new Bruce anchor too! That was an expensive trip...
In a commercial lobster fisherman I fish the farthest island out the island of the blue dolphins! Name Joe Ramirez .we have a spot in our fiul area we call it jaws .As a comercisl lobster fisherman I have been in the surf zone rescuing traps like a tow in her ski driver and I have pics to prove it.ive seen 70 foot faces that hold . If you want to know more message me.
I used to go out to San Nicholas Island as a kid. Father was officer out there. Saw some seriously big waves at Sand dollar beach. Tons of seals. I'm sure the whites were patrolling the lineup. Awesome times. Shark Park? The name says it alone. Noooooooooooo thank you.
I worked out there for seven years. For a few years the OIC let us surf as long as we had a buddy (chum) on board. Some epic surfing on big long lonely waves. I hold those years dear to me.
@@BZ-ki5gc I'll post it on dark technology Joe Ramirez check for it in a couple of weeks I'm not at home right now you but I will post the pics for proof from my throw away camera I used back in the mid 90's.
The life flight didnt make in time for jimmy bro...45 min flight ..he bled out on the deck.....always come to the tag line and ascend under your boat! No swimming across the top....your just a big lure to those 747s bra!
@@Miqnayahu sorry brother… the only time I ever went to San Miguel I was 17. ‘94? Left from SB and was the craziest crossing I’ve ever known. 36 hour turnaround of feeling like I was on the edge of death. I didn’t sleep at all. When I came back into harbor, I was so delirious I couldn’t sleep for another 24. Got some great calico bass and a 60# white bass from the trip though..
@@morganrich4894 we went out just before hurrican nora....it was that tahitian swell mixed with that hurricane 9ff the tip of baja....dave , my roomate went out the next week and his boat got hit by a 30 footer and washed up on shore at cat rock on santa cruz...had to swim out to a lobster boat to get home, but only after having to bait all his traps... 😆....we got stranded for 3 day at moore meadows...jimmy the guy who died at shark park saved our boat, it floated out to the reef north of san nicholas....3 days of limpets and abaloney😄
I am surprised that he has not made a film about some Nicholas Island? Back in the early 80s a world record was set there at 55 feet. Which is also part of the channel islands chain off of California.
We did the barracks out there for the grunts....they were catching baby great whites off the beach at nicholas....i can see the thing from my pad at the top of castro peak! Barbers point on santa barbara island too....now theres a sharkey point...too much kelp....the biggest one i saw though, was near yellowbanks at this place called cat rock on santa cruz island! Well over 20 feet....all 4 seals split and i knew there was trouble man...
@@talesfromchannelislands i was surfing rolling rock( cat rock on the map) With mike lamb...he was jordy smiths coach....he got pitched at the rock trying to do a behind the peak pull in and got launched on a big day...dave wise and i were watchung and he had a hair piece on...well it flipped foward and we thought he got scalped on the reef...we all laughed about it later...but it scared the shit out of dave and i cause we had a guy die with us on a previous trip...he got knocked out by a big wave and drowned...so cat rock has one casuality...unfortunately he was on our boat...which kerry McChrystal now owns...22 wilson with a wheelhouse that we added...v8 with a 240 volvo penta outdrive....we used to freeze before the wheelhouse was added...had to wear all our ski gear to stay warm on the way out...we lokked like 3 michlien men
I remember an old pal , who was a much better surfer than me talk about the waves in Ventura County Waters. He described these waves as incredibly thick and heavy. The waves at San Miguel remind me of Ship Stern's Bluff in Southern Australia. The water is icy cold and these very thick and heavy waves double up, making them extremely dangerous. Let's face it. surfing is a down right dangerous and ballsy sport. It demands training, discipline, and fitness. But most of all, it requires nerves of steel like going into battle and not knowing whether you'll get out alive. I still have swimmer's ear from that incredible day in San Onofre.
I live and surf in Mendocino California north of San Francisco. Lots of good waves but I'm usually surfing solo so lots of spots I don't paddle out at due to being solo
@@mendoblendo321 I got a tour of your neighborhood during a 20 day run of 20ft plus. so much rain and chaos. Waves were too giant to even comprehend. Looked like a perfect rivermouth left until you realized how large it was. Good surfing to you.
Doesn't look fun at all. Anchored there once in bad weather and that place is spooky for sure. The wind was blowing like a sonofabitch, coming over this bluff. The anchor kept dragging and the next thing we knew we were in open ocean again. That happened twice before we got it to hold. I didn't sleep well that night. Maybe next time I'll paddle around and explore. Fuck no I won't.
@@JohnnyRedmond I was in my skiff going by the East end of anacapa there's a weird little wave that just kind of almost pitches some white water. Honestly we looked at it a bunch of times and we said maybe with a longboard. But it doesn't go anywhere Andy barely pushes Whitewater in front of it so I have to say hats off to this guy and foam board technology for catching the little face before the Whitewater tries to roll. We rolled over and talked to him he works for the Park service I would say he's the only person to ever surf the East end of Anacapa. So much respect to the foam.
If you lived out there like I have you would know that conditions change with the tide the wind just like any other spot. What I know about the west swells at the islands is tide swell direction and how these spots change with a Southeast blowing into the face of the wave.like I said you better be pro or commercial fisherman or you don't know what you're talkin about because you'll never see the waves at their best just remember you're not sitting in your car every day looking at the break you're at the islands.
@@patrickwoods7924 hey bro nobody going to go out and pack out the spots that were talking about we ain't talkin Mmdos or Y.banks on backside we talkn story about deep water reefs that are offshore of the islands that needs the good tide and large intervals and has big vertical face to drop into. And nobody's going to go out in a sailboat answer these type of spots
@@darktechnologyjoeramirez4252 ok well when I make a comment that is very much seen as a “don’t try surfing. It sucks” and you take me 100% serious I’m not really sure you understand my motive lol
@@coleherrington5858 BIG wave 30 feet but 30 isn’t 50 feet like the narrator claimed and it’s bs this break will go to 100. If it ever did or could get to 100 it would be famous not essentially unknown compared to other big waves on the planet like Mavericks. 30 is basically half as big as Mavs…So….there’s lots of exaggeration in this video.
Why are we talking about the Channel Islands? I was sworn to secrecy decades ago. "It's our secret. Never teach the islands." - Wu Strand Warrior RIP BROWNIE!
You know why cuz you can't blow these spots up we're not talking Moore Meadows or Yellow banks we speak of the deep water spots and the outer island Nicholas and I can guarantee you never got sworn to secrecy about San Nicolas. Only a handful of people have surfed Nick and I'm one of them and I never told you not to tell nobody hi earned the right to talk about this spot it's my second home. I bet you've never even been there and that goes for shark Park Nik Miguel you are talking about two islands that are very dangerous to go to.
LOL @ 50 feet and possibility of it being 100 feet. It's a Lousy wave with poor form and not even half as big as the biggest Mavericks. No people will not go 70 miles to surf that junk when they can surf Mavericks and 100 feet is pure horseshit exaggeration.
Its a fickle wave it needs a South East wind to hollow it up. San Nicolas has a far superior wave than Tal.or mav. We call it Jaws. As long as the west wind isn't blowing and the swell is pumping it's a super man right put a S.East wind on it you get the darkest scariest makeble barrelling right that you will ever see. This wave is for the professionals and their support crew only.
Over the years I've been around all those islands mostly just fishing, a little free diving/ spear fishing etc. I've taken my board and surfed a handful of spots, more as a novelty to say I did it. But when it's working and there's legit waves and you see commercial fisherman parked on the spots . . . it's theirs. That's where they spend a large portion of their lives, making a living busting their asses to put food on the table for their families.Have some respect. I'd never be 'that guy' who comes in and drops anchor. What is the real point of this video in the first place? Thumbs Down.
@@acme9538 you didn't make a point. You act like there's a hundred boats dropping anchor on people's traps when all reality there's barely rarely anyone that goes out there and they are highly respectable of the fishermen in locals. Your point is about as realistic as saying the Easter Bunny is now stealing Santa Clauses presents that he has for children. Think about it
RIP Christopher Brown. Total legend.
Agreed!
Chris brown (the rap around) bud surf tour ! RIP
I grew up surfing in Oxnard, at Hollywood by the Sea ( our name in those days). We never even considered going out to the Channel Islands in those days. Of course, we had little money nor access to get there. Thanks for letting us know about Shark Park. I can't image an injury out there, it is so far away!
Learnt to surf at Hollywood beach as well, lots of love for that stretch of beach. Stays empty even when silver strand is packed 🤙🤙
RIP Chris Brown. You were a legend.
dam! how did chris brown die?
The Santa Barbara Police Department concluded its investigation into Brown’s passing, explaining that he was high on methamphetamine when he fell from a cliff above Hendry’s Beach and subsequently drowned.
“It was determined that Brown died as a result of drowning due to blunt force injuries, which were caused by [his] descent from height to the rocky surf line below,” police spokesman Anthony Wagner told the San Luis Obispo Tribune.
“Other significant conditions include acute methamphetamine intoxication,” he added. “According to the investigation and toxicology reports, [Brown] was under the influence of a high level of methamphetamine when he descended from a cliff to a rocky surf line below… He sustained blunt force injuries that were significant enough that he was unable to remove himself from the surf line and drowned as a result.”
wow! what a crying shame, i liked his style, thanks for the info!
Anyone remember the Chris Brown wraparound?
@@Elloguvanah yes sir, used to love going to the pssa contest in Southern California.
Good on you Chris Brown(RIP), So Stoked to know he was one of the first to surf this area. Hell it was scary just being an Urchin Tendor out here. Yes the break made you want to explore, but never did. Its truely GNARLy in even aspect.
Amen. I was out on this last South swell at Santa Rosa / Skunks. There is a reef just out from the point that popped up, a massive wave that scared the F out of me. I have never seen it break that far out and wasn’t looking in that direction. I can only image what it would be like at Miguel.
These comments about exploiting it are hilarious. That's a two hour boat ride from Gaviota. Windy more days than not, and those winds are about the most unpredictable in the sailing world. Conditions could look just right in the morning, and four times out of five you'd arrive to a blinding fog or 20 knot winds blowing it to hell with the sharks laughing at your lost cause.
you are so right, I used to surf and now kayak fish and that whole area is prone to fog, wind, chop, heavy current, and big surf in a storm swell (especially in the winter), so be careful as the central coast is no joke, it gets rough fast
How true ! I grew up there and surfed. Wasn't even spoken about. We were content to be able to surf Rincon off Serena point. Crazy to surf there 😳 😅
Feel like shark bait everytime I paddle out. Was at the beach the day the kid got attacked luckily bit the board just south of the pier at sc
Neat video. Neat place. I did get an 8 pound lobster there... San Miguel Island is incredibly vital.
Very cool!
Hysterical that anyone thinks this spot will get exploited, let alone crowded.
BTW, there’s heaps of waves like this all up and down the Central and Northern coasts. Almost no one surfs any of them. Big Sur alone is absolutely holding but is so hard to access that it will never be an issue.
Crowds prefer ease of access.
You're absolutely correct either you have a lot of money and you're a experienced Mariner.Or your profession is out on the ocean chances are you won't make it out there to the real heavy spots and if you do you'll probably die if you don't die you'll be rescued and you probably won't even see the waves at their best conditions. So with that said you are absolutely correct there is no way for these waves to be crowded. Only the backside of Santa Cruz island it's safe enough for the average person to possibly make it out there safely . That is as long as they don't get ran over by a tanker on the way out. But even Catalina Santa Cruz
Anacapa the Disneyland islands can take your life in a second. Maybe when the VTOL vehicles come onto the market for the general public
there could be a possibility then.
So true. Just drove through Big Sur and saw what looked like ridable waves, but hard to tell if 4ft or 14ft with no one out there.
@@dukehong7491 Almost certainly bigger than it looks. I’ve scoured the Big Sir coast for waves many times. Every spot always turned out to be bigger and heavier than I thought. That whole coast is an absolute swell magnet.
a simple 5 minute walk from the parking lot to the break is enough to keep the masses away...
Haha yeah I've seen bigger waves than this in the Humboldt Jetty. Not to mention waves like this all over the Lost Coast. Where should I look in Big Sur? Don't worry only like 10 people will see our comments and no one will blow up the spot as you say
RIP Chris.
Worked a lot of days as a tender for Urchin and Abalone divers at the west end of San Miguel and watched this place break on occasion, its very spooky. Anyone that surfs it is both brave and nuts. Its a white shark migration route feeding zone. I've dove the west end of Miguel near this spot, once, it felt so exposed and not fun I never went back in the water out there.
Exactly. If there was no cameras and vainglory to be had, how many would surf that place for the thrill alone? Those people are crazy fucking heroes!
@@tonysmario817 honestly quite a lot would. There is no glory in the grind it takes to get good at surfing, at least not in cold California waters. People mostly surf because they love it and are addicted to the feeling of ridding a wave. Some in LA and more in San Diego might be in it for social and cultural reasons and get to be sort of OK at it, but farther north in 45 degree air and 50 degree water and hitting it before dawn to avoid onshore winds, it takes a love of ridding waves not a need for attention.
I have lived and surfed on Kauai, Maui and Santa Cruz so have seen a lot of sharks (mostly tigers and great whites). The creepiest shark spook I ever felt was the last time I surfed Ano Nuevo alone one foggy winter afternoon. Didn’t see a shark but the message to get the hell out NOW was loud and clear.
@@tonysmario817 I agree...
@@joeblow1942
I know that feeling.
I had to get out, I rode my board till I hit the sand. Prior to that moment I was surfing the best in my life, when, all of a sudden a feeling of dread over came me. I looked around and I was all alone. Everyone else had gone home.
Chris Brown was who we all wanted to be growing up he represented 805 well rip champ
Amen.
Those waves are just intimidating at every level. I think you can smell the fear.
Back in the 80's and 90's the Vision, Truth and Conception would take us out to the channel islands to shoot fish and get abs. Once and a while they would take us on the windward side of the island, more often than not we were on the lee ward side cause the sea was too rough. The guys that surf there are something else, hats off to them. Thanks for the story.
I've been out there both diving and looking for surf. Never found decent waves, but the diving is fantastic and where I had my scuba certification dive. I'll never forget jumping off the boat and clearing my mask and looking down into beautiful clear water full of living creatures. A different word from simply diving off the coast. I never experienced sharks there, but definitely my own stupidity along with the guys I was with on a small boat looking for surf. Low on gas, fortunately a fisherman gave us some or we might not have made it back to civilization. Cool isolation out there for sure.
Just as it’s meant to be out there, one Big adventure.. thank you for sharing your story.
Shout out fisher man
Always wondered if waves were there. Looks gnarly. Hats off 🤙🤙
Pretty cool looked like Chris got the best ride probably because he's from Ventura's line up.
actually SB
@@artsilva well that's how well liked he was we claim him here too. I remember surfing around him many days just assumed he was from Ventura
@@darktechnologyjoeramirez4252 Nah, he lived in the neighborhood here and just like everyone else in SB, we tend to go surf Ventura/Oxnard on occasion for something different or if the swell is not hitting SB as good.
He was the only SB guy we liked surfing here in VTA. Ha! Great dude.
RIP Chris Brown
Yeah Man < Chris !! DAMN IT!!
Brownie🌊🥀
Always remembered being in AWE of his "Chris Brown Wraparound"
Met him at Avila Beach / Pt San Luis Breakwall right sandbar looking like sandspit SB and CB was just dredged the wholeeeeee fucking breakwall. The big Harbor breakwall not the little boatlaunch wave... amazing times
Drug overdose?
Hi I used to comm fish swords out there, have you checked the San Nicolas break off the west side there a spit that goes out a mile to a rock ,check it sometime ,good luck Dan zacha
It's actually three miles to the boilers and your talkin about the same spot I'm talking about.
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Catch a couple good waves and call it a day before your luck runs out.
These guys balls for taking this wave on… hats off to them
You’re right. I don’t have the nuts for this place I can tell you that.
Awesome video, cheers mate
Glad you enjoyed it
Sand spit South end of Miguel... Saw it break from miles away. The other deckhand said yaa, the sand spit get huge sometimes
I say Run!
I seen the worst possible situation out there ! and you are alone a long way from help it took coast guard over an hour to get into the area let alone find us. by time they where able to assess the situation and deploy any meaningful help it had been 2hrs. it was 2hrs to long. much respect to the coast guard .
Agreed, Ask Adan Coons.
Yeah they're good two hours to the island that's pretty incredible.they saved my ass to right in front of whiny view harbour f****** water was above the batteries I put out the maydaythey responded and were on scene in five minutes they had me pumped out in 20.
I was blessed it was a glassy day.
Correction Hueneme harbor
Yeah....jimmy was a cool dude...we hung out at moore meadows all the time....him and his dog! ....urchin divers are a special breed of surfers! ....i thought skunks on rosa was rad, or tallcots....but miguel is knarley bro!
Big 747s!
Skunks kicked my butt on a 12 foot day. Had to goto UFO's. Miguel is my Fav but a real adventure.
@talesfromchannelislands ive got the biggest standup barrel shot of myself at skunks...you wouldnt believe it if you saw it...got spit outta that thing like a cannon...same thing happened at east point...now theres a shallow reef! Claimed our brand new Bruce anchor too! That was an expensive trip...
I would go out there, no problem!
I just wouldn't get off the boat 😳
The weight of that wave crashing down has to be at least 1000 pounds. amazing that surfers live to tell the tale of wiping out there
We used to call that the foul area, as it is named on the chart...
We called it of F!
Wave looks a bit slabby on the reef so not a predictable wave dropping into .
There are much better waves than this...
In a commercial lobster fisherman I fish the farthest island out the island of the blue dolphins! Name Joe Ramirez .we have a spot in our fiul area we call it jaws .As a comercisl lobster fisherman I have been in the surf zone rescuing traps like a tow in her ski driver and I have pics to prove it.ive seen 70 foot faces that hold .
If you want to know more message me.
let’s see it
Do tell
I used to go out to San Nicholas Island as a kid. Father was officer out there. Saw some seriously big waves at Sand dollar beach. Tons of seals. I'm sure the whites were patrolling the lineup. Awesome times.
Shark Park? The name says it alone. Noooooooooooo thank you.
I worked out there for seven years. For a few years the OIC let us surf as long as we had a buddy (chum) on board. Some epic surfing on big long lonely waves. I hold those years dear to me.
@@BZ-ki5gc I'll post it on dark technology Joe Ramirez check for it in a couple of weeks I'm not at home right now you but I will post the pics for proof from my throw away camera
I used back in the mid 90's.
Cappys black boat. Da Man
How did Chris pass?
He fell from a cliff above Hendry’s Beach and subsequently drowned.
Brownie! RIP
San Miguel island is no joke. You are too far away if you need help. Come prepared or don’t come. RIP, CB. 805 legend…
Just getting out on a calm day can be a tuff let alone with swell! CB would know..
The life flight didnt make in time for jimmy bro...45 min flight
..he bled out on the deck.....always come to the tag line and ascend under your boat! No swimming across the top....your just a big lure to those 747s bra!
@@Miqnayahu sorry brother… the only time I ever went to San Miguel I was 17. ‘94? Left from SB and was the craziest crossing I’ve ever known. 36 hour turnaround of feeling like I was on the edge of death. I didn’t sleep at all. When I came back into harbor, I was so delirious I couldn’t sleep for another 24. Got some great calico bass and a 60# white bass from the trip though..
@@morganrich4894 ohhhh...white sea bass...delicious man!
@@morganrich4894 we went out just before hurrican nora....it was that tahitian swell mixed with that hurricane 9ff the tip of baja....dave , my roomate went out the next week and his boat got hit by a 30 footer and washed up on shore at cat rock on santa cruz...had to swim out to a lobster boat to get home, but only after having to bait all his traps... 😆....we got stranded for 3 day at moore meadows...jimmy the guy who died at shark park saved our boat, it floated out to the reef north of san nicholas....3 days of limpets and abaloney😄
I am surprised that he has not made a film about some Nicholas Island? Back in the early 80s a world record was set there at 55 feet. Which is also part of the channel islands chain off of California.
Access is very difficult. The Navy doesn’t want you there either.
We did the barracks out there for the grunts....they were catching baby great whites off the beach at nicholas....i can see the thing from my pad at the top of castro peak! Barbers point on santa barbara island too....now theres a sharkey point...too much kelp....the biggest one i saw though, was near yellowbanks at this place called cat rock on santa cruz island! Well over 20 feet....all 4 seals split and i knew there was trouble man...
@@Miqnayahu Wow...I surfed close to Yellow banks...Cat Rock> Is that spot on Anacapa Island? Any how they are out there...11ft.
@talesfromchannelislands cat rock is on santa cruz island just north of yellow banks
@@talesfromchannelislands i was surfing rolling rock( cat rock on the map)
With mike lamb...he was jordy smiths coach....he got pitched at the rock trying to do a behind the peak pull in and got launched on a big day...dave wise and i were watchung and he had a hair piece on...well it flipped foward and we thought he got scalped on the reef...we all laughed about it later...but it scared the shit out of dave and i cause we had a guy die with us on a previous trip...he got knocked out by a big wave and drowned...so cat rock has one casuality...unfortunately he was on our boat...which kerry McChrystal now owns...22 wilson with a wheelhouse that we added...v8 with a 240 volvo penta outdrive....we used to freeze before the wheelhouse was added...had to wear all our ski gear to stay warm on the way out...we lokked like 3 michlien men
God big Cali waves just have this scare factor to them that no other place really does.
Yep, I don't know what is worse crossing the Channel or Riding the waves.
South africa way worse, try dungeons
I noticed there hasnt been many takers since this trip hahah
This was super cool
We think so! Thanks for taking time to say so..
This makes mavs look chill. RIP Brownie
Except for the Sharks....Of Wait...Dam They are everywhere..
Better waves on the lee side.
There is a known Lady white shark there that cruises there to Talcott.
Do you know her name?
@@talesfromchannelislands hahaha I don’t want to know her name but I know a few urchin divers that have said hi 👋! 😬
@@franklindmurphy I heard the same. My friend got bit by a GW out at Talcott 2 years ago surfing. Just trying to close th loop.
Brownie!
I remember an old pal , who was a much better surfer than me talk about the waves in Ventura County Waters. He described these waves as incredibly thick and heavy. The waves at San Miguel remind me of Ship Stern's Bluff in Southern Australia.
The water is icy cold and these very thick and heavy waves double up, making them extremely dangerous.
Let's face it. surfing is a down right dangerous and ballsy sport. It demands training, discipline, and fitness.
But most of all, it requires nerves of steel like going into battle and not knowing whether you'll get out alive.
I still have swimmer's ear from that incredible day in San Onofre.
Shipsterns Bluff is in Tasmania.
@@ymatT601 haha beat me to it
I live and surf in Mendocino California north of San Francisco. Lots of good waves but I'm usually surfing solo so lots of spots I don't paddle out at due to being solo
@@mendoblendo321 I got a tour of your neighborhood during a 20 day run of 20ft plus. so much rain and chaos. Waves were too giant to even comprehend. Looked like a perfect rivermouth left until you realized how large it was. Good surfing to you.
I was thinking about Australia as well or psyxlopse
rip cb
Amen
Is nothing sacred?
Dood, so few people have what it takes to surf this place. Some waves will always take care of themselves.
Shipsterns in Tasmania is a Wilder ride than Shark Park
I love surfing and no thank you.
It's doesn't have a good barrel. Just closes out. Cool looking wave though. Be safe out there.
*sea lions other than that ... great video!!
Thanks for watching!
I only like big waves when it's not cold and sharky.
Or extremely remote..Happy New Year..
This video is way too short hopefully after you see all these comments you'll make a trip out to
Doesn't look fun at all. Anchored there once in bad weather and that place is spooky for sure. The wind was blowing like a sonofabitch, coming over this bluff. The anchor kept dragging and the next thing we knew we were in open ocean again. That happened twice before we got it to hold. I didn't sleep well that night. Maybe next time I'll paddle around and explore. Fuck no I won't.
Sounds like a good time! Ha..NO...Was this at Cuyler?
just remember if you drag next time you throw that f****** hook make sure you throw out a lot of scope.
Forever Home
So sharky.
This man said 100 feet
Yeah, fuck that lol
Theree are no other spots out there - only sharks and caves for kayaking in.
That’s not true
Clearly you haven’t surfed here
The Nay sayers are either invested some how in Mavericks or just losers who don't know what they are talking about.
Cappy,Chris Brown and Josh Bradbury were the 1st to surf it,much cleaner than this
Not a chance !
Double Agree!
2:05 *shark park shuffle
RIP bro
Gnarlburgers....
And How! X-2
To all the s&#t talkers
Don't comment on the islands unless you have spent some time out there.
What happened to not exploiting spots?
aint nobody gonna complain about a spot thats far out.
And you won't have to worry about the van pulling up with a bunch of foam surfboards.
@@darktechnologyjoeramirez4252 I drive a van and I surf softboards. I'll take it as a compliment.
@@JohnnyRedmond I was in my skiff going by the East end of anacapa there's a weird little wave that just kind of almost pitches some white water. Honestly we looked at it a bunch of times and we said maybe with a longboard. But it doesn't go anywhere Andy barely pushes Whitewater in front of it so I have to say hats off to this guy and foam board technology for catching the little face before the Whitewater tries to roll. We rolled over and talked to him he works for the Park service
I would say he's the only person to ever surf the East end of Anacapa.
So much respect to the foam.
Can you imagine 20 surfers in the water out there? The sharks would circle pit.
RIP Brownie..
Hey EA, from Joey ray.
The islands never get good. Not worth the effort of getting out there
Unless you have spent time out there you really don't have any idea what you are talking about.
If you lived out there like I have you would know that conditions change with the tide the wind just like any other spot. What I know about the west swells at the islands is tide swell direction and how these spots change with a Southeast blowing into the face of the wave.like I said you better be pro or commercial fisherman or you don't know what you're talkin about because you'll never see the waves at their best just remember you're not sitting in your car every day looking at the break you're at the islands.
@@darktechnologyjoeramirez4252 AYE MAN DO YOU WANT MORE PEOPLE OUT THERE? IM TRYNA HELP US BOTH OUT HERE
@@patrickwoods7924 hey bro nobody going to go out and pack out the spots that were talking about we ain't talkin Mmdos or Y.banks on backside we talkn story about deep water reefs that are offshore of the islands that needs the good tide and large intervals and has big vertical face to drop into. And nobody's going to go out in a sailboat answer these type of spots
@@darktechnologyjoeramirez4252 ok well when I make a comment that is very much seen as a “don’t try surfing. It sucks” and you take me 100% serious I’m not really sure you understand my motive lol
Garret The Wipeout King.. may YHWH BLESS HIM.
Has he ever made a wave?
There are probably thousands of giant junk waves on the planet
It wasn't even half the size of the biggest Mavericks waves.
@@freesoul3371 yea it was
@@coleherrington5858 NO it wasn't. marvericks gets 60+. the video shows wave half that.
Look at 3:50 easily 30+
@@coleherrington5858 BIG wave 30 feet but 30 isn’t 50 feet like the narrator claimed and it’s bs this break will go to 100. If it ever did or could get to 100 it would be famous not essentially unknown compared to other big waves on the planet like Mavericks. 30 is basically half as big as Mavs…So….there’s lots of exaggeration in this video.
Wow!
I wish I had balls.
Grow em
looks like a terrible wave though
Why are we talking about the Channel Islands? I was sworn to secrecy decades ago. "It's our secret. Never teach the islands." - Wu Strand Warrior
RIP BROWNIE!
You know why cuz you can't blow these spots up we're not talking
Moore Meadows or Yellow banks we speak of the deep water spots and the outer island Nicholas and I can guarantee you never got sworn to secrecy about
San Nicolas. Only a handful of people have surfed Nick and I'm one of them and I never told you not to tell nobody hi earned the right to talk about this spot it's my second home. I bet you've never even been there and that goes for shark Park Nik Miguel you are talking about two islands that are very dangerous to go to.
Three words for this place -
No Thank You 😂
Shark Park is a no go for me, don’t like sharks
and I think for most of us.
LOL @ 50 feet and possibility of it being 100 feet. It's a Lousy wave with poor form and not even half as big as the biggest Mavericks. No people will not go 70 miles to surf that junk when they can surf Mavericks and 100 feet is pure horseshit exaggeration.
Its a fickle wave it needs a South East wind to hollow it up.
San Nicolas has a far superior wave than Tal.or mav. We call it Jaws.
As long as the west wind isn't blowing and the swell is pumping it's a super man right put a S.East wind on it you get the darkest scariest makeble
barrelling right that
you will ever see.
This wave is for the professionals and their support crew only.
By the way it's around 40 miles from S. B. Harbor.Just curiosity question:How many times have you been to Rosa and seen this wave? Not many I suspect.
I have fished the SB channel islands from Anacapa to San Miguel for 40+ years.
Over the years I've been around all those islands mostly just fishing, a little free diving/ spear fishing etc. I've taken my board and surfed a handful of spots, more as a novelty to say I did it. But when it's working and there's legit waves and you see commercial fisherman parked on the spots . . . it's theirs. That's where they spend a large portion of their lives, making a living busting their asses to put food on the table for their families.Have some respect. I'd never be 'that guy' who comes in and drops anchor. What is the real point of this video in the first place? Thumbs Down.
Get over it
@@mydogatemyhomework3768 My Point Exactly.
@@acme9538 you didn't make a point. You act like there's a hundred boats dropping anchor on people's traps when all reality there's barely rarely anyone that goes out there and they are highly respectable of the fishermen in locals. Your point is about as realistic as saying the Easter Bunny is now stealing Santa Clauses presents that he has for children. Think about it
Really great video, nuts!
RIP Chris Brown
You said it…RIP
@@talesfromchannelislands i grew up with his cousins Ryan and Travis. He was at every one of our soccer games, basketball tournaments ect