{"id":6728,"date":"2017-01-29T18:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T18:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantiksurf.com\/en\/?p=6728"},"modified":"2017-01-30T09:11:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T09:11:26","slug":"biggest-waves-in-tenerife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantiksurf.com\/en\/biggest-waves-in-tenerife\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggest Waves in Tenerife"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps many of you have surfed in Tenerife<\/strong> before, but where did you go? El Socorro, Los Patos, El Bollullo, El Anc\u00f3n, Benijos, Taganana, Alm\u00e1ciga, Marti\u00e1nez, El Castillo, La Tejita, La Machacona, Las Am\u00e9ricas, Alcal\u00e1<\/em> … Yes, all these beaches have good waves but were they really huge<\/strong>? The type of waves we are about to describe only come once every 3\u00a0years<\/strong> approximately. So where are they? How can we know when and where to go?<\/strong> Keep reading and you’ll find out.<\/p>\n

As said before big waves in Tenerife (more than 20 feet = 6 meters) only appear certain times<\/strong> of the year\u00a0and\u00a0sometimes they don’t appear at all until the next season. Since I was a kid in Tenerife, every time big waves came to the Island I heard the following expression: “Es la Marea del Pino<\/em><\/strong>” which literally means “It’s the Pine Tree Tide” but what it really refers to\u00a0is the name of a Virgin called Virgen del Pino<\/em><\/strong>, patron-saint of Teror in Gran Canaria (the neighbour island), on the\u00a08th of September<\/strong>. Thus, the expression Marea del Pino<\/em> reallly means The Tides that come in September coinciding with the Virgin del Pino<\/strong><\/em>. The most famous tides in the Canary Islands then, adopted a virgin name, but this is only a period in the year in which huge tides visit\u00a0the north side of the Island<\/strong> and\u00a0I’m afraid to say that sometimes it’s not enough to produce the waves that we are about to see\u00a0on the following videos … and we’ll speak about requirements and conditions later<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

VIDEO 1, COURTESY OF Sergio del Pino:<\/strong> On this video we see the rescue team leaded by Nyko Denard<\/em><\/strong> and all the brave local surfers hit the waves of EL BRAVO, in Puerto de la Cruz<\/em><\/strong>, Tenerife. (On a red wetsuit during the 00:10 to 00:13 seconds of the video, Nyko Denard is currently the only<\/strong> professional<\/strong>\u00a0Rescue water craft operator<\/strong> and member of the K38 Rescue International<\/a><\/strong> association in\u00a0the Canary Islands and Europe. If you want to catch these waves in Tenerife, you better call him!). Go to second 00:31 onwards to see the waves<\/strong> we are talking about.<\/p>\n