Surfing in the Great Lakes - Red Bull New Wave
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
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Professional big wave surfer Jamie Sterling hopped on a plane with a mission to find and surf decent waves in the great lakes.
At Beaver Bay in Duluth (lake superior), Minnesota amongst freezing cold temperatures, Sterling was able to surf some remarkably big waves despite being in an actual fresh water lake.
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It's understandable why the Great Lakes aren't referred to as "oceans" or "seas" (because those are usually defined as being saltwater), but really, they deserve a different title than "lakes", as anything large enough to generate its own weather is in another class entirely.
+d'Etroit Ultramann Well said.
I agree. It is more of a fresh water sea. There are others like that. But I agree the term lake is wrong. The great lakes acts too much like an ocean.
I'm okay with either verbage..
They are just so unique.... And I live on the tip of Superior... In Duluth MN
And being a surfer. It's been fun to try to figure out fresh water..
Big benefits are drinkable water when you paddle. No sharks. No jelly
They are freshwater oceans. The Chippewa called it-' Gitchigumi'.. which means' Big Sea Water'.
Love the smile on his face at the end. Living in Maine I know the feeling. Surfing in cold water is a true test of your soul.
I’m from jersey not as bad here but yessir you know who really loves surfing come winter time up here
Those waves are beautiful, I can not even believe that it is a lake
Im a yooper and when my family from alabama came up north for my graduation they fr thought it was the ocean
These are lakes you can’t see across
@@jacobg2296 thats how lake Huron and lake superior are they are huge.
@@jacobg2296 a yooper is a person form the upper peninsula of Michigan lol that might help clarify I swam these the lakes in the vid
@@travisg.5166 lol not lake Erie
Yup its a small fresh water ocean basicly. This lake sank the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. It was a big ass 729 ft long freighter and this lakes waves broke it in hafe and sank it to the bottem.
The ship breaking in half wasn’t mentioned in the song.
Those waves are a joke.
@@krakenwoodfloorservicemcma5975 the only joke here is you
@@krakenwoodfloorservicemcma5975 Yo mama is a joke
Gulf of Mexico waves are a joke, lake waves are even more of a joke than that.
Why do you clowns live this lie that you have large surf? Just accept you surf puddly lumps of freshwater slop. It’s not a big deal. Not everyone can live on the south coast of Australia.
Man, that is hard-core as hell! Look at the ice hanging off his hat when he get out. Far out, man.
YES!!!!! From a true Michigander, thanks for the exposure Red Bull. Lots more to see here in the great lakes. Hope you come back soon.
Lake Superior is truly phenomenal for many reasons besides being able to surf on fresh water! Thanks to the lake you have some of the highest snowfall levels (parts of the southern shore average 525 cm) anywhere on the planet which creates some great skiing and snowshoeing. The lake also has a measurable gravitational tide although it is dwarfed by the Seiches. Winds and changes in air pressure cause the lake level to raise and fall up to 1 to 2 meters every 4 to 7 hours. Significant weather events will trigger these Seiches (imagine water sloshing back and forth in a tub) which will continue to “slosh” back and forth for several days. And then there are the meteotsunamis, which are also triggered by weather events or air pressure changes sometimes 500km away. Winds or a storm on the far end of the lake can cause a sudden surge in the water that can travel across the lake in a matter of hours and a 3 meter wave will strike an otherwise calm beach on seemingly clear sunny day from what appears to be out of nowhere. All these things (plus the surfing) makes many of us who know her personally think we really need a new word because lake somehow doesn’t do her justice.
BTW... Lake Huron is also quite spectacular in that it has actually spawned its own hurricane like storm where the warm waters fed the growth over several days. It even developed rain bands and an eyewall forming an eye several miles across... Hurricane Huron was listed in the 1996 hurricane season. And that isn’t the only thing the lake shares with the Caribbean, it also has Bahama style blue holes hundreds of feet deep that are fed by groundwater giving them a different ecology then the surrounding lake. The pictures of these holes are stunning...some of the bluest water in the world. And it’s not far from Lake Michigan’s spectacular Sleeping Bear Sand Dune rising out of the lake at 33 degrees to a height of 140 m and covering 10 sq km.
I surf almost every weekend in chicago. love surfing the lakes!
The "Norwegian Riviera" i.e. Minnesota's North Shore. Good clean shark-free water! I would imagine there are some totally undiscovered places on Lake Superior that are even better than this.
+Cal Crappie awesome post...
Totally dude! The wind swells and currents on Lake Superior are wild and powerful. There could be spots that hit double overhead under the right conditions
Try 2’ Hawaiian you clown.
It's snowing and 20 out and lake Erie is supposed to be 6 feet tomorrow! Hell yeah!
incredible for any human being to paddle out in that frigid environment, dude deserves a medal. As an australian I never would have thought a lake could produce waves that size.. Four foot maybe??
The great lakes are pretty dangerous. They can get waves of 30+ feet. a lot of big ships and lives have been lost on them. The Edmund Fitzergeral was allegedly sunk by a 40+ footer.
@Mike Gee That thing about the lamprey is the biggest lie I have ever heard lol.
Yeah. There is no lamprey that latches on to you.
We have lamprey in the lake. They don't seek out human sized targets
It's the greatest lake on earth
@@bunt1691 according to?
Nice to see a salt surfer come to our Lakes! I surf Huron mostly and Canadian side of Superior but never that big yet!! "fingers crossed"
Amazing!!@ i live in Florida I need to go here!!!!
Damn, and I thought the Atlantic was cold over here! I'd NEVER go ice surfing but it's awesome that there are guys like you who are crazy enough to do it so the rest of us don't have to!
I would like to see any professional surfer surfing those conditions much props to this dude
you guys are legends...good on you.
I lived there for a year and I missed surfing so bad! I always thought there could be some good surfing in that lake but it's so damn cold!! Amazing video!
Best lake waves I've seen in a video !
That is so sick, those waves are perfect
Its awesome to have some videos from my area for once!
Hell yeah! Colder than NE, with some size!!
MN!!
Nothing better then a good dive in that lake every morning. :D
look at that double overhead at 48!! crazy!!
lol that's not double OH smh....
+Torrey B I'm calling it head high to overhead. Def not double overhead, but still impressive for a lake.
I'll trust the pro surfer
Yes, great lakes around Michigan can see waves that big and sometimes bigger.
This is amazing! Double over-head waves on a lake? Fresh water? How does that feel?
Imma try the Mediterranean fo sure....!! I live quite close
Roughly the Atlantic is 1.15 more buoyant
When I lived in Marquette, MI, I would go to the black rocks to watch the waves during storms. In November and March, there were many times when they would be 10 to 14 feet. If you are really lucky, you can get 20 plus foot waves out there in November, March and possibly early April. I kind of miss being able to head to the black rocks to watch the waves during a storm.
P.S. Lake Superior is an inland freshwater sea.
I salute yall.....yall...yall yea way Tooo...Cold
I am sure Minnasotan surfers are gutted you won't be there Suppaduppa. I am glad you miss the point of surfing, that means more waves of all kinds for the rest of us in Scandinavia, the UK, The Great Lakes, South East Asia in the Monsoon and all the other spots that take just too much love of surfing to do.
Yeah man! The great lakes are huge. When looking at superior its just like the ocean in that you can see the other side.
Dang waves were good !
These are some proper waves for a lake
yes it dose advertise something. The beautiful lakes we have up here!
That was so chill brah
redbull+surfing=awsome
@NickMAI2Y "6pm in the morning" by jr kong
You get to surf with no worries of sharks or jellies
Ye but the current is often way stronger
@@uisneaghmullen3328 plus fresh water is not as buoyant
Of course they are rideable dude!
A lot of the times it is super wind blown and is fairly junky yes, but we get a good 10-15 times a year really good perfectly barreling waves like you would see on a good day in the ocean. But the dudes that surf and skim the lakes are mainly just stoked you can do it here and that it can get really good sometimes. Its a sick vibe, thats what makes it so good, everyone is just amped when there is even 4 foot waves!
I also do surfing on Lake Superior and I still do it in the winter (on days the lake isn't frozen). The water is cold but a few minutes beening in the water its quite enjoyable.
We get super intense winds from upper parts of Canada which cuts deep on our Great Lakes, really there not lakes dude there inland seas. There pretty freaking big ecespically Lake Superior which is the biggest of them all. Biggest season for us is Winter when the water is warmer from the summer and the cold air just cuts in the water like nuts. We love it man! Cold is more of an adventure!
you gotta really love it to surf when its that cold
That is one big ass lake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(excuse my surprise... we don't have lakes like that in the UK)
@WhatRofl We're landlocked and at times it sucks. If I had the option to move to the coast I would. Surfing in ice cold temps is all about being passionate about it or whatever your sport is. You know it's something that burns inside you when our options are few. Hell, it was 25 Fahrenheit (Idk the metric temp) today and I went mountain biking on a frozen trail out of pure love for the sport. I guess you could say some of us are a little crazy.
i wish someone was surfing marblehead lighthouse with me monday! nothing like surfing overhead windswell in ohio and getting dragged in the current through rocks! It was 30-35 knots for like 3 days straight, gnarly bloody fun.
Never knew the GL got so BIG ! WTF? Still a novelty wave (where's Ben Gravy?) Lol. Way to go JS.
We actually get a gravity swell. Generally 1-1.5 m
It's amazing
@@bunt1691 Wtf is a gravity swell ? The gravity of the moon causes tide which can cause waves especially in tidal bores. But I suspect you mean something else? Please do explain what a "gravity swell" is?
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Great Video. Surfing in the cold is for the experience. We get waves here like this in the spring and fall too. In the Fall, the water is usually warmer then the air temp. This spot is just north of Duluth. There are several other spots too. Stoney Point is usually the best. Park Point beach right in the city can get good, and is all sand. But the Under toe can be scary if the outer sand bar breaks.
I surf Lake Michigan. We get some decent waves. Sometime I'll have to try Lake Superior. But honestly, when I travel to surf, it's warm ocean waves.
Nature is both beautiful and terrifying. Crazy that this is considered a lake.
The Dead Sea is tiny compared to Lake Superior and Lake Superior is very small compared to the Caspian Sea ( 371,000 sq km/143,200 sq mi). Superior also has an average depth of only 480ft/147m compared to 690ft/270m..
The Caspian Sea is still a salt water body of water though.
@808bayside They're called the great lakes for a reason. More ships have been lost to just Lake Superior, where they were surfing, than to the Bermuda triangle, possibly most famous being the Edmund Fitzgerald.
And I thought Northern California surfing was ccccoooold. Wild.
Great lakes represent! Sick vid
Very cool. I do not feel so bad being here in the mitten after two decades of surfing the Pacific. I guess.
looks warm
Hey, I saw Jamie Sterling in a surf vid of peru. I think the Icicles hanging off of his hood at the end of the vid is one of the most extreme things I have ever seen
I surf here in grand haven michigan i love it,,,,
@MrTommy123g Isn't this in Minnesota?
Yes it is.
20 knot currents is pretty gnarly.
@WhatRofl People often don't have the option to travel to those places and have to work with the lake waves where they live. Red Bull made the vid in the lake because it's different and unique.
How many sick wrap around peelers go unridden is the question. Damn that's cold.
I love surfing the great lakes, but this video really shows how much less power great lake waves really have....did you see how slow he was going and how lethargic his turns were on those big waves!!!! Still surfing though!!!! Kudos to Red Bull for showing people that with passion the possibilities are endless and major props to Sterling for coming out here and checking it out!!!!!
You can compare the great lakes with the Mediterranean sea, no tides, deep water and roughly the same size. Big difference is the water and air temperature and the salt water.
michigan is a beautiful place to live in. When i retire i'm going to move to michigan
Gr8 Lakes - gr8 Waves ! ( :
I love this video
Michigan! F YEAH!
I'm a medium size, average Swede, and I just go fishin in the big lake after the snow's thawed. When I go surfing I do that in the summertime, too. And like normal people, I GO SKIING IN THE WINTER. Great surfing I'll say, if you like scraping the ice off yer fin before ya go in. bbbbbbbbbbboB
Dude I lived in Michigan and surfing in Lake Michigan and Superior is so much different from the ocean. It makes you appreciate surfing a lot more then being in super crowded surf with a bunch of pissed of people. Fresh water surfing is where its at.
YES
yeah if you go to lake superior in the fall months sometimes waves get bigger than 10 feet.
yeah they get pretty brutal during storms and in the winter
Great video. Thanks. Get some 8 mm boots dudes. Feet will not get cold.
I grew up on Lake Huron, most people have no idea how powerful these "lakes" really are. They're really like oceans without the salt and sharks. So many people drown over on the Lake Michigan side because they underestimate mother nature's true wrath.
Right on dude, either way all our Great Lakes get some decent sized waves
@noordkant
don't know that board but if you surf lake waves i highly reccomend the channel islands pod, not the best for choppy but if its clean there's nothing better
these guys are the bomb!
Of course it gets big... large body of water + strong winds = big surf ! BUT does it get clean ? (serious question... it would be great to see a video of big clean surf on the great lakes)
You can get big clean surf, but it doesn’t occur as often as on the oceans. It requires particularly strong weather conditions on the other end of the lake with usually a strong high pressure on your end to suppress the winds and keep things clear. But, that seldom happens for long. We may get a huge aid in finding good surf in the near future as they are working on a meteotsunami detection network that should be able to forecast periods of high surf independent of shore based weather forecasts.
im so glad the water here in hawaii is warm
I totally know where some other fantastic places are on Lake Superior for surfing. A little more north in canada tho.
wow that was real surf way to go
Yes, Lake Superior has seen 30 footers
would there be surf in antarctica? because there is so much water between antarctica and anywhere else which some big swell must be able to form.
gotta love michigan
That Is Awesome!
Damn right Jake!
Maybe they could have snagged a stealhead out there eh!
So sick
holy shit that s cold icicles on his hoodie!
I live in Duluth Mn that is right on the western tip of Lake Superior. To people on the great lakes these are seas not "Lakes". But I prefer bodyboarding in the ocean it's much warmer and won't drown you
yeah thanks i watched a video about it. its pretty gnarly!
Yes
Other big ships lost on the lakes include: Carl D. Bradley, lost to storm on Lake Michigan, November 18, 1958 and the Daniel J. Morrell, lost to storm on Lake Huron, November 29, 1966. The Bradley sinking claimed 33 of 35 sailors, the Morrell, 28 of 29 sailors
Nice ..
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yes, huge lakes!!!!
LOL look at his hood at the end of the sesh
Haha this is bigger than a lot of stuff I have surfed on Oahu... And a lot colder...
Sic Jamie
@PostDrummer
no it just shows how bad ass that dude is.