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Cortes Bank / California

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Cortes Bank is a big wave surf spot located 110 miles west of the coast of Point Loma in San Diego, California. The shallow seamount is the outermost feature found in the Channel Islands chain. Around 10,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age, the Cortes Bank was a small island randomly submerged depending on the sea levels. This barely flooded islet features around 16 miles of basalt and sandstone in the shallower areas. Located in an unruly patch of the Pacific Ocean, Cortes Banks has always been an extremely sensitive and temperamental heavy water area. "Though it's only a viable surf spot about three days of any given year when the elements come together, and winter swells hit with enough intensity, this sleeping giant comes alive, and the southwest corner of the Bank transforms into a quarter-mile surfing expanse that produces some of the most unfathomable powerful waves in the world," details big wave surfer and writer Rusty Long. "It's a grand display of force and form and one of the most radical, high-risk arenas in the world." But this big wave surfing break has several additional shoal spots ranging in depth from 30 to 100 feet, making it a nightmare for swell hunters and navigation. Cortes Bank was named after Hernán Cortés, a Spanish navigator and ocean explorer who participated in the initial phase of the colonization of the Americas. 4000 x 6000 Px 300 Dpi By Samanta, 2023

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