“I realised then that I almost died” – Brazilian big wave surfer Marcelo Luna misses his jet ski pickup at Nazaré, gets drilled in the head by a mountain of water and nearly drowns!
In this episode of “Nazaré Dispatch”, Marcelo Luna gives his first person testimony to the filmmakers about what happened and what is like to surf and get pounded in the world’s most feared wave: Nazaré. His friend Alessandro Marcianó, which was Marcelo’s team mate during that session also describes the sequence, giving the audience a rare insight of what happens during a Big Wave Session in Nazaré when things go wrong.