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A surfer broken the world record riding the biggest wave. The Guinness Book of World Records said a Hawaiian man caught a wave was 23.7 metres tall, which broke the previous record by than 30 cm. The surfer, Garrett McNamara, 44, the Associated Press news agency that he stayed in bed the day he broke the record because he was exhausted. However, he he would have fun when he got into the and on his surfboard. “Everything together. Everything felt ,” he said.

Mr McNamara’s record-breaking surf was off the of Portugal, above an undersea canyon that is for producing some of the highest waves on the . He took up surfing at the age of 11 and professional when he was 17. He said he was about breaking the record but that it was more his story could encourage people to their passions in . He said: “The world would be a much place if everyone was doing what they to do.”