Plumber surfs 'biggest wave ever' in Nazare, Portugal

A British surfer may have broken the record for riding the world's biggest wave.

Andrew Cotton, 34, from Devon conquered what many believe is the biggest wave ever surfed - he headed back to Nazar, Portugal (where he was believed to have ridden a similar size wave in October 2013) during Atlantic storm Bridget, which hit the west coasts of Europe in the weekend.

"I've never ridden a wave like that," Cotton told Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight.

"I was hurtling down it so fast, but I couldn't get near the bottom. It was pushing me up all the time.

"It makes you wonder how far we can push it, how high can you go? It was scary. But you're always in the hands of mother nature and that's what's exciting."

Prior to taking on the giant 24m wave Cotton nervously called his wife to talk about the rough conditions he would be facing.

"He never says he's nervous about a wave or the height, but this time he called me saying it was looking dangerous," Katie Cotton told News Ltd.

"He just deals with it. I don't know how I deal with it - I just wait for his phone call afterwards. As long as I'm sure that's coming then it's fine.

"It's what he loves doing and trains so hard at so it would be wrong not to be happy that he's managing to surf these waves," she said.

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Plumber surfs 'biggest wave ever' in Nazare, Portugal