Is This Guy Bloody Crazy Nuts or What? [Video]

Famous surfer Mark Visser got his board and a couple helicopters to Jaws, the large wave reef on Maui Island, Hawaii. Then, at night, he tried to kill himself. I mean, he went out surfing 40-foot waves at night.

The shots of him riding a 40-foot wave is so perfectly awesome that it looks computer generated sometimes. However’s not. He was wearing a buoyancy vest and a modified surfboard with built-in LED lighting.

The lighting technologies were created especially for the project by Solus Corporation using ground breaking NASA submarine lighting to make sure the wave and board were lit within the right places, at the fitting time and illuminated the wave without hindering the vision of Visser, the jet ski drivers and the helicopter pilots.

The video is gorgeous and scary. Will probably be included in a new documentary series called 9 Lives. [ Transworld Surf via The Scuttlefish ]

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