How is wave height measured in Australia?

[oldman]

I can live with it Iggs.

I doubt that 95% of Australian surfers adhere to it, at least 76% of that 95% aren't sure and 14% have failing eyesight.

But everyone knows that over-calling it is a mortal sin.

[Trev]

Sorry igs. Just found this in archive.

I have to say, Ricky Grigg as an oceanographer gets my vote.

http://liveweb.archive.org/http://forum ... php?t=5119

[PeepeelaPew]

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[Beanpole]

So they overcall wave heights in Hawaii?
Guess you don't know who Ricky Grigg is?
It all definitely comes from Hawaii.

[PeepeelaPew]

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[Beanpole]

He is pretty old I guess.

[Kunji]

People have just gotta accept the unit of measure here. The majority wins, the minority are kooks and beady-eyed cat killing repeat sex offenders.

[Beanpole]

No matter how dumb it is. Guess I'm a kook then since I like cats
Hasn't really been a matter of controversy since the cool guys don't ever surf under 6'
Everyone used to say the earth was flat too you know.

[Trev]

- they call wave heights similar to the state I live in (and apparently most of the rest of Australia)
- no, don't know him, don't care. He's wrong in Hawaii from all accounts I've ever heard of or read in my lifetime, and he's wrong in Australia from all accounts I've ever heard of or read in my lifetime (apart from really old people or some Qlders).

Tobes' your youth is showing.
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/rgrigg/surfbook/

A professor of Oceanography at the University of Hawaii and big wave surfer in the Greg Noll era.

http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/maga ... hejob.html

Read and learn young fella.

[PeepeelaPew]

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[Beanpole]

Well Tobes from what I gather from all the posts from all the endless discussion about wave height it seems to me that a lot of people have stopped using feet at all and just say how high the wave face is in relation to your body. I know I stopped doing it years ago. I know I'd feel like a complete kook calling waves the way you do but I'm just someone who walks down the beach and trusts my own eyes. Your right though. If someone starts using your measurements my eyes just glaze over.

[Hatchnam]

1 foot = waist high
2 foot = shoulder high
3 foot = head high plus
4 foot = head and a half high
5 foot = nearly double overhead
6 foot = double overhead
7 foot = non existent
8 foot = double and a half overhead
9 foot = non existent
10 foot = triple overhead plus
11 foot = non existent
12 foot = four time overhead
13 foot = non existent
14 foot = non existent
15 foot = huge
18 foot = more huge

[Beanpole]

From surf research
https://www.surfresearch.com.au/awaveheight.html

[Cranked]

OK, its time to drag out that big day at Ulus in 2008. No-one out at 7am, it was awesome! Two guys tow in at about 8:30am

Skip to 1 minute where a surfer tows in and rides from the outside bomby all the way...

https://youtu.be/HV5baEVfTbE

So how big was it?

[foamy]

“ 20′ = It’s just really big”

[buddy]

Yeh, I stop putting numbers on it above the 10-12’ category.

[Beanpole]

OK, its time to drag out that big day at Ulus in 2008. No-one out at 7am, it was awesome! Two guys tow in at about 8:30am

Skip to 1 minute where a surfer tows in and rides from the outside bomby all the way...

https://youtu.be/HV5baEVfTbE

So how big was it?

Great waves. Definitely over 6’

[Hatchnam]

Yeh, I stop putting numbers on it above the 10-12’ category.

Exactly. Unless someone’s surfing giant shit then best to refrain from calling sizes.