In September of 2008, Greg and Rusty Long and Mark Healey joined writer Mike Cianciulli and photographer A.J. Neste from Gerard Sports Marketing on a mission to surf the Qiantang River bore in China Apparently the bore is known to locals as The Silver Dragon and is the focus of a riverside festival.
The river water looks pretty ordinary, but the wave itself doesn’t look too bad. Here’s an excerpt from the blog post on surfline:
Greg Long and Healey zigzagged and carved through our familiar zone. But once they shot Bridge #6 together, the river bent and the wind turned offshore. Rippable sections popped up all over the place. We were forced to forge ahead, much to the dismay of the Communist Government officials, because there was no way for the guide boat to punch through the eight-foot wall of whitewater. And this was our precise excuse for forging past our boundary during the final day.
read the rest of the post on Surfline
(We’re indebted to RealSurfer Kev R. for pointing us to this extraordinary adventure blog on the big US surf site, Surfline.com. )
I did a little search on Google, and turned up some video of the boys’ adventure. And just for comparison, I also grabbed one of the famous Brazillian tidal bore, the Pororoca.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzgpiDVl4XY[/youtube]
Compare this to the Pororoca in Brazil…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZuZiLuHM1A[/youtube]
