A big wave surfing friend almost drown here.. We lost sight of him. He ended up way down the beach throwing up. He said he just couldn`t get to the surface. And it wasn`t as big as this!
I was there in 2014, and we saw the river come to life as guys dug it out. We didn’t see it get quite this big, but it was just so cool to watch the standing waves form and guys go in.
Haha...insane...I saw it when ya'll started digging it...Nope...I kept driving east...so much water in that thing! plus 12ft shorebreak. Viewers have no idea how crazy that was.
You are right. I have no idea whether this is dangerous or not. Can't really tell. But the fact that at the end where the wave is biggest and steepest people weren't going for it suggests that this is actually sketchy? Is it easy to drown there? Break your neck?
the Gnarliest i ever seen it !!! jaimie on jerrys board toward the end was over head !!! awesome fun i like try think id need fins after getting sucked out to sea Aloha DSC777
My first experience surfing was on the little break created by the sand bar created by the river running out. Also, the first time I caught a fish was in that river there (I let it go because pilau water) I went to Waimea Bay sooooo many times as a kid!
Bueno hombre, deja que los chicos se diviertan; a quien cuernos le importa la sequía, el daño medioambiental y que la 1/4 parte de las personas lo tenga jodido para encontrar agua ? (se notó lo suficiente el sarcasmo, verdad ?)
The overflow eventually happens. It’s part of the rainy season, probably one more strong rain would have triggered what they did. I live in at a beach in Nicaragua where this happens every year in all rivers.
@@pregooooooooskio add to that, if the river is not emptied before it gets this full many homes up waimea valley get flooded. This past rainfall caused flooding because they didn’t breach it in time
I got an ear infection out that way and the doc gave me a handful of blue antibiotic pills, he handed them out like candy, probably gave me 30, and said on chocolate days to take a gram after surf, once, to knock out whatever, lepto, dunno, other bacterias. seemed sketchy but I did take them once or twice I think. mason got the natural immunity
I shattered my collarbone on my honeymoon on that beach one winter. It’s called “breakneck beach” for a reason. Most beautiful place in the summer with no waves when I went back. Got to swim with dolphins.
I know this happens naturally but was this done at a time when the river was about to spill over anyways? If not was it the best idea to accelerate the process?
It’s actually coordinated by the local government or an environmental agency or something like that. It’s a naturally occurring phenomenon that they do on purpose, like controlled burns to help with forest fires.
Most estuaries are temporarily open closed systems. They are an important nursery area for certain fish species and crustaceans. They do breach naturally after heavy rains. This allows the fish to escape and new larvae to enter, repeating the cycle. The biggest reason why authorities generally breach these systems is to prevent properties upstream of the mouth from being flooded by the rising water.
Where does all the sand come from? Is it being pushed in from the ocean or being pushed out by the river? Awesome video! And love the artwork on your board!
At the other end of a bitch is a humongous rock like 20 feet high, and people jump off of it into the bay. I found it first on TH-cam I think they call it jumping rock. If you get a chance you really need to go there. Mahalo👍
Uau..... imagens incriveis. Aqui no Brasil há vários lugares como este. Muito lega. Parabéns pelas filmagens. Tente fazer com drone da proxima vez, ficará melhor ainda.
Need one hydraulic to form where the water falling backwards like a wave when it hitting a big bump in the water like a boulder or something, then can if can.
I love the lifeguard on speaker “if you fall in you’re going out to sea” 😂😂😂 and when the dude belly flopped and they all in unison went “ohhhhh” 😂
Jamie and Mason are nuts for riding that!
Gnarly doodes
Nice artwork on those boards
It’s crazy that the ocean builds up that sand again in almost no time.
Is it?
@@mr.smithgnrsmith7808 It is to me!
Stout, kudos for hopping in this sans PFD. that is some gnarly WW
So insane!! Glad y'all are okay and you even came home with those beautiful boards!
We need more Mason Ho in surfing. Way more entertaining than pretty much any video surfline puts out.
A big wave surfing friend almost drown here.. We lost sight of him. He ended up way down the beach throwing up. He said he just couldn`t get to the surface. And it wasn`t as big as this!
I was there in 2014, and we saw the river come to life as guys dug it out. We didn’t see it get quite this big, but it was just so cool to watch the standing waves form and guys go in.
Never felt so scared watching rivermouth surf!
I'm old lol. But...I did have an early morning slop session with you in 2004 before ECSC in VA Beach. Good to see the legacy continue. Mahalo
Absolutely terrifying, I would never think of going in that. Boys got some stones that’s for sure.
Haha...insane...I saw it when ya'll started digging it...Nope...I kept driving east...so much water in that thing! plus 12ft shorebreak. Viewers have no idea how crazy that was.
You are right. I have no idea whether this is dangerous or not. Can't really tell. But the fact that at the end where the wave is biggest and steepest people weren't going for it suggests that this is actually sketchy? Is it easy to drown there? Break your neck?
even riding a 2ft standing wave can be scary
@@martinbiehl4596 its way scarier, you literally get stuck underwater in a washing machine
@@martinbiehl4596 double black diamond shit with a shorebreak that size. You'll get rocked and then sucked out into a rip
@@boogieheads I know that water is dirty, but that's scary if people are throwing old appliances in there.
So gnarly. The amount and force of that water, is unreal. Not to mention navigating the mine field of debris, that rips through there.
Hope someone got some footage of that sandbar 😂
Watching Danny Duncan surf that was very cool.
the Gnarliest i ever seen it !!! jaimie on jerrys board toward the end was over head !!! awesome fun i like try think id need fins after getting sucked out to sea Aloha DSC777
Wow STUNT SURFER doing it again loved that clip stay safe mason yo thx
This is first river wave I've seen with an actual lip.
It almost barreled
look up african river wave zambese i think ?
That escalated quickly lol.
At first I was like "What's the big deal?" That was gnarly af.
Mahalo! Some of the best and biggest river break riding yet.
Got sucked out at night...paddle in was one of the most scary situations of my life.
Dude gnarly
I get sucked too sometimes
I'm *always* down with getting sucked
@@apache5841 And you should get a paddle in for that one.
These guys are the guys who made the river at Waimea in which we see today, let’s be thankful they did this
My first experience surfing was on the little break created by the sand bar created by the river running out. Also, the first time I caught a fish was in that river there (I let it go because pilau water) I went to Waimea Bay sooooo many times as a kid!
For me it was Eastern Lake ((inlet) Seagrove FL) when it was unblocked to the gulf and when the tides changed!!
What kind of fish are in that river?
The river was a giant firehose nozzle for a while there! awesome thank you
The Ambassador of Fun Mason Ho Ripping the Waimea River Love it. Merry Christmas 🎄🎄🎄 and Happy Holidays to all the Ho Ohana 🌊🌊🌊🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽
JOB was ripping
HO just stood up
Looks like so much fun, Mele kalikimaka from San Diego!
mental. Always wondering how the beach recovers afterwards.
Swell and current brings all the sand back and river runoff is actually very healthy for marine ecosystems to flourish
It's a natural process. Rivers do this routinely.
Do you guys make it happen or does it just happen. I find it so cool. We don't have that in Scotland lol
@@fraser15432 Both. In the video it was dug out, but if people don't breach the berm the river will do it eventually when it's raining.
Absolutely mental! Still one of my most favourite places in the world. Spent 2 weeks on the beautiful north shore in 2013. Great vid guys.
Time to go again ❤
@@saipan4209 it's such a great place. We stayed at turtle Bay resort.
@@saipan4209 where is it located
So much moving water!!!
I'd love to see drone footage from above as it goes from a trickle into a torrent.
6:10 Nice paint job on that Surfboard.
Weird question! But does that go back to how it was and if so how??? Cool video though
Intelligent and ecological !!!! 👏
Bueno hombre, deja que los chicos se diviertan; a quien cuernos le importa la sequía, el daño medioambiental y que la 1/4 parte de las personas lo tenga jodido para encontrar agua ? (se notó lo suficiente el sarcasmo, verdad ?)
Insane! You have the coolest boards on the planet!
*So rad 🔥*
Yeah dude that was mental, I saw that river and was like that's no joke, super gnarly. listen to da wisdom brotha
Wow, at the end, there was some serious water coming out of The river shooting into the ocean. Pretty scary.😮
Does that section of the beach ever get filled back in, or is that permanent??
Pretty Wild & it happened soooo quick
Yeah pretty sure tides currents and waves fill in all the sand again. This happens naturally they just sped it up a little haha
I was there 3 days after this storm and while there was a low area, the sand was back and the river was blocked again. Pretty quick
That section at 5:48 is gnarly.
That's the gnarliest rip I've ever seen.......
double overhead waimea river, hows that for a surf forecast.
you should use rope between to have something to catch to... in this fast water. river surfwaking :)
Wowww, sooo cool. You guys!!! 🎉😯🤩
I would never let my kid anywhere near that, to watch as a bystander.
That sand can just wash away in no time.
Mason doing foreplay on the bump😆
It seems that even Mason was out of his depth this time.
Would love to see a Drone view of were the lake water meets the ocean water.
You can see it here: th-cam.com/video/QVtR2IeB7oI/w-d-xo.html
@@marcelodeandradehernandes5499 Wow dude that was sick as hell. Thanks for the share man.. 🤙
Is it dangerous to get between that river and the ocean?
It looks almost as hectic as a big day at Pipe.
All the freshwater fish are like, "Ahhhh, it burns this water burns. Is this fish hell?"
The overflow eventually happens. It’s part of the rainy season, probably one more strong rain would have triggered what they did. I live in at a beach in Nicaragua where this happens every year in all rivers.
@@pregooooooooskio add to that, if the river is not emptied before it gets this full many homes up waimea valley get flooded. This past rainfall caused flooding because they didn’t breach it in time
@Alberto D. Prego Estrada Good to know. I was wondering if this was bad or good for the river.
I got an ear infection out that way and the doc gave me a handful of blue antibiotic pills, he handed them out like candy, probably gave me 30, and said on chocolate days to take a gram after surf, once, to knock out whatever, lepto, dunno, other bacterias. seemed sketchy but I did take them once or twice I think. mason got the natural immunity
Stick to dry reef surfing, it's much safer.
😂
Why even surf reef...surf at a wave pool even safer..
Don't look too dangerous mate 💯
Shhhh
@@gen.arnavpoe4633 why even surf? Just stand it's safer
I shattered my collarbone on my honeymoon on that beach one winter. It’s called “breakneck beach” for a reason. Most beautiful place in the summer with no waves when I went back. Got to swim with dolphins.
Curious, is this a man made thing, and is it just a ton of beach erosion?
Biggest one yet!!!
You guys are INSANE! Stay safe and have fun!
Does this happen every day with the 🌊 tide
How did you know this was going to happen I miss hawaii
River was full from rain, dig a trench and start it up
Are these the people whose video has been circulating of them connecting a river to an ocean?
why nobody went 4:00 top left on beach, paddle and go right down the water hill and carve big 180, and stay in position
Because wrecking on that is death for a mortal
@@coreygolpheneee like 4:18? doenst seem that bad
Broooo wot🤯🤯 this is unreal
1:20 bruh I thought that was a mermaid 😂😂
How long was river blocked for?
Best damn river surfing in the Ho world 🤙🏼🌺
How do you stop it and what do you do when your done does it just keep going forever?
the river sealed later that day.
1996 "fish" as in made in nineteenhundred and ninety six?
I know this happens naturally but was this done at a time when the river was about to spill over anyways? If not was it the best idea to accelerate the process?
I actually just watched the drone footage and didn’t realize how close it was to spilling over anyways.
Awesome 🤙
so gnarly!
Have you dumped a whole lake into the sea? 🤔
I got a serious question guys - isn't this pretty bad for the ecosystem/surrounding environment? I'm not an expert, but it seems pretty messed up
It’s actually coordinated by the local government or an environmental agency or something like that. It’s a naturally occurring phenomenon that they do on purpose, like controlled burns to help with forest fires.
Most estuaries are temporarily open closed systems. They are an important nursery area for certain fish species and crustaceans. They do breach naturally after heavy rains. This allows the fish to escape and new larvae to enter, repeating the cycle. The biggest reason why authorities generally breach these systems is to prevent properties upstream of the mouth from being flooded by the rising water.
A river? Into the sea? WOW that really is bad
Wow so bad water splashing 😂
There’s a dude with a megaphone - when you have a megaphone everything is correct 😂
Mason you should have the next driver 4.0
Is it better to let the water go on a high tide or a low tide? That looked pretty knarly and fun👌
For a second I was like who’s that old guy with grey hair that’s going to send it. I did a double take because I saw no soft top log!
Where does all the sand come from? Is it being pushed in from the ocean or being pushed out by the river? Awesome video! And love the artwork on your board!
pushed/pulled out by the river when they break the natural dam formed by the sand, but the ocean does dump all the sand off eventually.
Brown water advisory... stoked you didn't die!😝🤙🏽💪🏽
Где продолжение? Что стало с озером?))
Does the river heal from this?
Yeah, full send..
awesome
Pretty cool
Bro how did the beach managers let u do that
Will the sand eventually block the river again.
yes, the same day the water levels even out and the river is blocked again.
@@riordanpringle2003 Thanks for the response.
These videos are always so entertaining
If you don't like rip currents or 3rd breaks or better.. just let the grommets have fun 😂😂😂 but don't lettem drown 😂😂😂
Where is this in the world - so beautiful, I wanna go!
At the other end of a bitch is a humongous rock like 20 feet high, and people jump off of it into the bay. I found it first on TH-cam I think they call it jumping rock. If you get a chance you really need to go there. Mahalo👍
Northern coast of the island Oahu, Hawaii.
@Island Flier I jumped off that rock and noticed a 15+ foot shadow swimming alongside me. That bay gets sketch when it's muddy
Fiji... Jk. Not going to say, so tired of tourists ruining the Aina
Legend
Great video…. Mother Nature never gets it wrong…..🙂🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Uau..... imagens incriveis. Aqui no Brasil há vários lugares como este. Muito lega. Parabéns pelas filmagens. Tente fazer com drone da proxima vez, ficará melhor ainda.
Super fun! How do you remediate the environmental disorder generated? May you upload the video when you recover the natural river path?
there is no environmental disorder. take a look at Waimea today - everything is back to normal. this is a normal process of the river mouth
I throw my old car batteries in that river
GNARLY!
Surfers out there be like “bra surfline said low tide over head, where all dis water come from??”
gnar! crazy spot
Massive!
Need one hydraulic to form where the water falling backwards like a wave when it hitting a big bump in the water like a boulder or something, then can if can.
Should have trackers on the dudes just in case someone comes up missing
Eddies on Sunday.. No fear surfing
That looks like my home break.