How tall was the record wave Sebastian Steudtner surfed at Nazaré in 2020?

Compared with things you know

• About 15 times as tall as an adult person (1.7 m)
• About 57% as tall as the Statue of Liberty without its pedestal (46 m)
• About 7.9% as tall as Tokyo Tower (333 m)

Did you know?

To measure it, experts corrected video frames for the camera angle, then used Steudtner himself as a ruler to turn pixels into feet.

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