In their eternal quest for a bigger wave, surfers have been known to fly out into the teeth of oncoming monsoons — and apparently they also go to the Arctic, where they wait until building-sized pieces fall off 800-foot-tall glaciers and then surf the resulting waves (while dodging the pieces). In places, the water they are surfing in is only 18 inches deep.
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