Brazilian big wave surfer Lucas Chianca is no stranger to heavy conditions but anyone who tackles Nazare needs a helping hand from time to time.
Lucky for the man known as “Chumbo” he had expert jet ski operator Ian Cosenza — a handy surfer himself — around to get him out of trouble in the monstrous Portuguese surf this week.
Incredible vision filmed by Pedro Miranda shows Chianca and Cosenza narrowly avoid being swallowed up a wall of a white water.
“You guys are crazy,” surf photographer Ricardo Alves wrote in response to the vision. “All my respect.”
It was just one hairy moment in a wild day of surfing at a break which regularly provides the biggest waves on the planet.