Hoping to turn out a series of adrenaline infused commercials for Nissan, professional surfers Jon Rose (US), Mar Ohno (Japan), Sergio Laus (Brazil) and an entire film crew were flown down to one of most isolated and unique breaks in the world.
The wave, called Pororoca, is a tidal bore at the mouth of the Amazon River. It’s created when the leading edge of the incoming tide from the Atlantic forms a wave that travels up the river. Still a secret to most, the wave has developed into somewhat of a legend amongst surfers and an annual championship has been held there since 1999.
Nissan put together this short film documenting the trip, as well as the wave.
Additionally, Surfline has a fun little sideshow with Jon Rose detailing the entire adventure.
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awesome! i wonder how soon before we see surf trip packages to pororoca? someone at nissan must dig surfing. i think i’ve also seen xterra spots featuring surfing on the north shore of oahu last year? good on them.
June 30th, 2008 at 9:12 am
I am looking for a couple of photographs of the pororoca to illustrate my teaching of hydraulic engineering at the University of Queensland. I am looking for medium to high resolution file (> 200 kb) to be shwon on large lecture room screen, and I would off course clearly acknowlege the source of the photograph(s).
Would you be able to help ?
I thank you in advance.
Regards
Hubert Chanson
April 6th, 2009 at 12:14 am